 | 1853 - 636 pages
...class. ... A waiting woman was generally considered as the ' most suitable helpmate for a parson. . . . Not one living in ' fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably. ' . . . It was a white day on which he was admitted into the ' kitchen of a great house, and regaled... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pages
...helpmate had not been of an equivocal character. Nor was his position much improved by the change. " ision of nature, appear to do. Then it may seem natural...it that Charles Lamb's should have just as little? »wine, and by loading dung-caru, that ho couldobtain daily bread ; nor did his utmost exertions always... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...helpmate had not been of an equivocal character. Nor was his position much improved by the change. " Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring...As children multiplied and grew, the household of tho priest became more and more beggarly. Holes appeared more and more plainly in the thatch of his... | |
 | Churchill Babington - Clergy - 1849 - 130 pages
...CLERGY. THE normal condition of the Country Clergyman's family is told in few words by Mr. Macaulay : " As children multiplied and grew, the household of the priest became more and more beggarly His children were brought up like the children of the neighbouring peasantry. His boys followed the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...chaplainship for a benefice and a wife, found that he had only exchanged one class of vexations for another. Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably. As children multi* " A causidico, medicastro, ipsaque artificum farragine, ecclesise rector aut vicarius contemnitur... | |
 | James Goodeve Miall - 1851 - 382 pages
...service ; and it was well if she was not suspected of standing too high in the patron's favour. * * Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring...and more plainly in the thatch of his parsonage and on his single cassock. * * His boys followed the plough, and his girls went out to service. Study he... | |
 | William John Conybeare - Christianity - 1855 - 498 pages
...class. ... A waiting woman was generally considered as the most suitable helpmate for a parson. . . . Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably. ... It was a white day on which he was admitted into the kitchen of a great house, and regaled by the... | |
 | John Lord - 1855 - 456 pages
...probably never more creditably filled. But the country clergy, as a whole, were ignorant and depressed. Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably or respectably. Nor was the condition of the 154 CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE. , Ch. 13 people satisfactory.... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...present. The same writer Irawsthe following word-picture of the condition of the rural clergy: —" Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring...became more and more beggarly. Holes appeared more and nore plainly in the thatch of his parsonage, and in his single cassock. Often it was only by toiling... | |
 | John Lord - Europe - 1860 - 530 pages
...probably never more creditably filled. But the country clergy, as a whole, were ignorant and depressed. Not one living in fifty enabled the incumbent to bring up a family comfortably or respectably. Nor was the condition of the 154 CONDITION OF THE PEOPLE. Ch. 13 people satisfactory.... | |
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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... 
