Mr. Macaulay's Character of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth Century, Considered: With an Appendix on His Character of the Gentry, as Given in His History of England |
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... father leaves a thousand pounds per annum to his eldest son , and plentiful portions to all the rest of the brethren , ex- cepting only the poor divinity thing , who is left so poor it can but just creep , having nothing but two spoons ...
... father leaves a thousand pounds per annum to his eldest son , and plentiful portions to all the rest of the brethren , ex- cepting only the poor divinity thing , who is left so poor it can but just creep , having nothing but two spoons ...
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... Fathers , and by consequence upon the Greek language . Let Burnet be witness to this point : he is speaking of the year 1662 . " LEARNING WAS THEN HIGH AT OXFORD ; chiefly the study of the oriental tongues , which was much raised by the ...
... Fathers , and by consequence upon the Greek language . Let Burnet be witness to this point : he is speaking of the year 1662 . " LEARNING WAS THEN HIGH AT OXFORD ; chiefly the study of the oriental tongues , which was much raised by the ...
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... father's side , and related to the principal families in Guelderland on the other . Dr. Bradley , rector of Ackworth in Yorkshire , married the Lord Savile's daughter ; Dean Herbert Astley married Barbara , daughter of John , only son ...
... father's side , and related to the principal families in Guelderland on the other . Dr. Bradley , rector of Ackworth in Yorkshire , married the Lord Savile's daughter ; Dean Herbert Astley married Barbara , daughter of John , only son ...
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... father's profession , which HAPPILY [ i . e . HAPLY ] for his other children he is not able to do . Yet in binding them apprentices ( in case he think fit to do so ) , he takes care not to put them into vain trades , and unbefitting the ...
... father's profession , which HAPPILY [ i . e . HAPLY ] for his other children he is not able to do . Yet in binding them apprentices ( in case he think fit to do so ) , he takes care not to put them into vain trades , and unbefitting the ...
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... fathers ( to take off as much as we may the weight of the fault from the weaker sex ) cockered and indulged , which I neither defend or excuse , but bemoan and condemn . Thirdly , such children , after their father's death , are left ...
... fathers ( to take off as much as we may the weight of the fault from the weaker sex ) cockered and indulged , which I neither defend or excuse , but bemoan and condemn . Thirdly , such children , after their father's death , are left ...
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Page 85 - The coarse and ignorant squire who thought that it belonged to his dignity to have grace said every day at his table by an ecclesiastic in full canonicals, found means to reconcile dignity with economy. A young Levite — such was the phrase then in use — might be had for his board, a small garret, and ten pounds a year...
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Page 85 - Who, though in silken scarf and cassock drest, Wears but a gayer livery at best. When dinner calls the implement must wait With holy words to consecrate the meat, But hold it for a favour seldom known, If he be deign'd the honour to sit down.
Page 51 - Hardly one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably. As children multiplied and grew, the household of the priest became more and more beggarly. Holes appeared more and more plainly in the thatch of his parsonage and in his single cassock. Often it was only by toiling on his glebe, by feeding swine, and by loading...
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