Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Rev. Sydney Smith, Vol. 2 of 2: Including His Contributions to the Edinburgh Review
The longer we live, the more we are convinced of the justice of the old saying, that an ounce of mother wit is worth a pound of clergy; that disere tion, gentle manners, common sense, and good nature, are, in men of high ecclesiastical station, of far greater importance than 'the greatest skill in discriminating between sublapsarian and supralapsarian doctrines. Bishop Marsh should remember, that all men wearing the mitre work by character.
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