 | Thomas Bartlett - Biography - 1839 - 586 pages
...of the national establishment, from the alarming temper of the times. He is said to have answered, that, " It was too late for him to try to support a falling Church *." The apprehensions of the good prelate, however, were happily not realized. The church of England,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1844 - 582 pages
...unfavourable a view of the then state of things, as to have remarked, as a reason for refusing the primacy, that it was " too late for him to try to support a falling church.'' The dangers that then beset our church have passed away, and others have in turn threatened it since... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...primacy was offered to Butler, but he declined it, saying, as the tradition of bis family reports it, that ' It was too late for him to try to support a falling church.' His nephew John, the same who preferred the vice to the Analogy, took a view of his own of the archbishopric... | |
 | 1840 - 538 pages
...of the national establishment, from the alarming temper of the times. He is said to have answered, that, ' It was too late for him to try to support a falling church.' ' The apprehensions of the good prelate, however, were happily not realized. The Church of England,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1860 - 494 pages
...is said that, when upon the death of Archbishop Potter, in 1747, the Primacy was offered to him, he declined it, with the remark, that, " it was too late for him to try to support a falling Church." He had not learned, like Waller, that " the falling Church had a trick of rising again :" but he should... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 pages
...him on its next avoidance. He is said to have refused the Archbishopric of Canterbury in 1747^ say'ng that it was too late for him to try to support a falling Church. Perhaps this refusal, if the story be true, may have arisen from an inward consciousness that his strength... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Cathedrals - 1864 - 442 pages
...primacy was offered to Butler; but he declined it, saying, as the tradition of his family reports it, that it was "too late for him to try to support a falling Church." In 1750 he was translated to Durham, where he set about repairing and improving the two episcopal residences... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1869 - 372 pages
...lucrative in England. He had before been offered the Primacy, on the death of Archbishop Potter, but declined it, with the remark that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." On assuming his diocese at Durham, Butler delivered and published his famous Charge to the Clergy,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1870 - 372 pages
...lucrative in England. He had before been offered the Primacy, on the death of Archbishop Potter, but declined it, with the remark that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." On, assuming his diocese at Durham, Butler delivered and published his famous Charge to the Clergy,... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 pages
...lucrative in England. He had before been offered the Primacy, on the death of Archbishop Potter, but declined it, with the remark that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." On assuming his diocese at Durham, Butler delivered and published his famous Charge to the Clergy,... | |
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This he refused, saying, in his melancholy way, that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church. 
