Yet this is better than the old infamous jobbing, and the foolocracy under which you have so long laboured." Sydney Smith's first term of official duty at St. Paul's began on the 1st of February 1832. On the eve of the new year he wrote to his married daughter: "We are debating how to come up to town, and how to make a Stage Coach compatible with Saba's aristocracy and dignity.
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