Download or read book A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith written by Lady Saba Holland Holland and published by London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. This book was released on 1855 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It will be seen in the narrative, and, in justice to my father, it ought not to be forgotten, that he entered the Church out of consideration for, and in obedience to, the wishes of his father ; ... with a strong natural bias towards another profession ; so that, in his passage through life, he had often to exercise control over himself, and to make a struggle to do that which is comparatively easy to those who have embraced their profession from taste and inclination alone."--Page ix