Monday, November 12, 2012

Sydney Smith Forecasts the Bourgeois Revolution

A man ahead of his time:
 Linendrapers and shoemakers might save Spain--in the hands of Dukes, and Bishops it is infallibly gone.
--Letter to Lady Holland, "After Christmas, 1808"
Selected Letters of Sydney Smith 47 (OUP paperback 1956)

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