 | Gardiner Spring - 1854 - 476 páginas
...So we say of the work of the ministry. " I envy not a clergyman's life," said Dr. Samuel Johnson," as an easy life ; nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." It is no easy lot; and where it is made so, it is no ministry, no service. If there be those... | |
 | George Herbert - 1855 - 560 páginas
...touching the last day, so neither touching the intermediate days of conversion. 1 " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....of a larger family than he is able to maintain."— JOHNSON by CUOKEK, vii. 162. a 1 t: ti h. i1.: al it P' ei h, m ai hi ti ct n. w. tc ea la Vi CHAPTER... | |
 | 1856 - 514 páginas
...labourers together with God." If he does not, he neglects his duty. Said Dr. Johnson, " I envy not a clergyman's life as an easy life : nor do I envy the clergyman who maltes it an easy Ufe." As well might he seek ease in the field or workshop. Ease does not belong to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...sighing for what he called the easy life of a parson, ' the life of a parson is not easy. No, Sir, 1 do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' The retirement snent would have been as fatal to Johnson as the occupation was distasteful.... | |
 | 1859 - 650 páginas
...sighing for what he called the easy life of a parson, 'the life of a parson is not easy. No, Sir, 1 do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' The retirement would have been as fatal to Johnson as the occupation was distasteful. His malady... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 páginas
...sighing for what he called the easy life of a parson, ' the life of a parson is not easy. No, Sir, 1 do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' The retirement ment would have been as fatal to Johnson as the occupation was distasteful. His... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 páginas
...sighing for what' he called the easy life of a parson, ' the life of a parson is not easy. No, Sir, 1 do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' The retirement ment would have been as fatal to Johnson as the occupation was •distasteful.... | |
 | 1859 - 578 páginas
...sighing for what he called the easy life of a parson, ' the life of a parson is not easy. No, Sir, 1 do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' The retirement ment would have been as fatal to Johnson as the occupation was distasteful. His... | |
 | Anne Mathews - 1860 - 380 páginas
...that he considered the life of a clergyman an easy and comfortable one, the Doctor replied, " The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always...father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it... | |
 | 1865 - 810 páginas
...of this profession, " I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the care of souls ; for I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy one." Of course all professions and callings may be broadly placed under one of two heads : those which... | |
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Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir,... 
