| James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...good living, like Bloxam ' and several others, and lived comfortably." JOHNSON. " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy, I have always considered a clergyman as the lather of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...have al. ways considered a clergyman as the lather of a larger family than he is able to maintain. 1 would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, g:r, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an... | |
| Charles Bridges - 1844 - 576 páginas
...considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. No! sir ; I da not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life ; nor do I envy the clergyman, who makes it an easy life.' K even foregone or forgotten in his absorbing delight in saving souls.1 Seasons of necessary... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 442 páginas
...good living, like Bloxam(') and several others, and lived comfortably." JOHNSON. " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Here taking himself up all of a sudden, he exclaimed, " O ! Mr. Edwards, I'll convince you that... | |
| Gardiner Spring - 1849 - 514 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... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 páginas
...said to a friend, a lawyer, who thought a clerical life would have been easier, " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." How would this have pleased good Bishop Burnet, who, in his admirable " Pastoral Care," thus... | |
| Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 páginas
...said to a friend, a lawyer, who thought a clerical life would have been easier, " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. / would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's... | |
| Charles Bridges - 1850 - 501 páginas
...I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. No ! sir ; I do not envy a clergyman's life as an...life; nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' 2 Compare John iv. 6, 31—34. 3 Compare Mark i. 35—38; vi. 31—34. 4 As, for example, sending... | |
| Robert Southey - 1850 - 866 páginas
...theology or philosophy, one of the most important that can come before the human understanding." 163. " I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain." True, both as to the poor, and to the souls of his flock. 171. Marshall's Minutes of Agriculture, 1778.... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 588 páginas
...life, Johnson replied earnestly : — " Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, ia not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as...rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the care of souls. No, sir; I do not euvy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I «nvjr the clergyman... | |
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