"Methodistical" Quotes from Famous Books
... mouth,—yeoman to the left hand,—these are the obstacles which common sense and justice have now to overcome. Add to this that the King, old and infirm, excites a principle of very amiable generosity in his favour; that he has led a good, moral, and religious life, equally removed from profligacy and methodistical hypocrisy; that he has been a good husband, a good father, and a good master; that he dresses plain, loves hunting and farming, fates the French, and is in all his opinions and habits, quite English: —these feelings are heightened by the present situation of the world, and the yet unexploded ... — Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith |