[153] This insinuation was quite unfounded.
[154] It is pleasant to cite the testimony of Lord Houghton, who assured
Mr. Stuart Reid that he "never knew, except once, Sydney Smith to make
a jest on any _religious_ subject; and then he immediately withdrew
his words and seemed ashamed that he had uttered them."
[155] Spencer Perceval.
[156] Lord Hawkesbury.
[157] See Appendix E.
[158] William IV.
[159] Charles Richard Fox (1796-1873).
[160] Benjamin West (1738-1820).
[161] Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846).
[162] I am indebted for this tradition to the Rev. H.S. Holland, D.D.,
Canon of St. Paul's.
[163] John Allen was nicknamed "Lady Holland's Atheist."
[164] Bishop of Gloucester.
[165] Bishop of London.
[166] Bishop of Durham.
[167] Bishop of Peterborough.
[168] Quoted by Mr. Stuart Reid.
[169] _Praeterita_, vol. II. chap. ix.
[170] Jane Marcet (1769-1858), authoress of _Conversations on
Chemistry_.
[171] _See_ Appendix C.
[172] _Comus_.
[173] See Appendix D.
[174] Compare his attack on Hobbes, of whom he says that his "dirty
recreation" of smoking did not interrupt any "immoral, irreligious, or
unmathematical track of thought in which he happened to be engaged."--
_Lectures on Moral Philosophy_, xxvi.
[175] Dixit insipiens in corde suo; Non est Deus.--_Psalm_ xiv.
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