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IN preaching a charity sermon, Sydney Smith frequently repeated the
assertion that, of all nations, Englishmen were most distinguished for
their generosity, and the love of their species. The collection
happened to be inferior to his expectation, and he said that he had
evidently made a great mistake; for that his expression should have
been, that they were distinguished for the love of their specie.





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