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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1831
Sydney Smith to Georgiana Meynell Ingram, 25 February 1831
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Combe Florey, Feb. 25th, 1831.
My dear Mrs. Meynell,

Our friends, I am afraid, have lost ground by their Budget, and there is no dissembling that they are weak; however, I hardly think the Tories would be bold enough to wish to succeed them just now. An-
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other week will decide the fate of parties, perhaps of the kingdom. I have a very bad opinion of public affairs; I never thought so ill of the world. Arbitrary governments are giving way everywhere, and will doom us to half a century of revolutions and expensive wars. It must be waded through, but I wish it had all been done before I was born. Wild beasts must be killed in the progress of civilization, but thank God that my ancestors,—that is, not mine, for I have none, but Mr. Meynell’s ancestors,—did this some centuries ago. Write to me, and God bless you!

Sydney Smith.