 | William Jones - 1799 - 488 страници
...reflection — " That clergymen underftand " the leafi, and take the word: meafure of human af'' fairs, of all mankind that can read and write." Cited by Temple, in his Eflay on the Clergy, p. 22. See his laft chapter, On the fervice clergymen may do their couqtry in... | |
 | 1801 - 574 страници
...man the dean chose for his daughter's husband. Lord Clarendon observes *, that " clergymen understand the least and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can read and write 5" and my friend was a great instance of the veracity of this observation. Old Pawlet no sooncç opened... | |
 | 1829 - 566 страници
...distinguished among the ecclesiastics of his age, that melancholy averment : ' Clergymen * understand the least, and take the worst measure of human ' affairs, of all mankind that can write and read.' Burnet would tell us, on his Episcopal knowledge and authority, what the 1688, of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 страници
...which has followed its victory : the clergy, says so strong a Churchman as Clarendon, ' understand the least and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can write and read.' Even to them it is a hard master. It is high-handed, and not over-scrupulous ; bishops,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 страници
...reflection — " That clergymen understand " the least, and take the worst measure of human af" fairs, of all mankind that can read and write." Cited by...clergymen may do their country in matters civil and temporal.— The reason of the above-mentioned circumstance it might be curious to investigate. 15.... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 570 страници
...a party hostile to the hierarchy, the bulk of * Lord Clarendon remarks, that " Clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can read or write."— Life, vol. ip 3*. the Protestant community adhered to it, and would have been fully satisfied... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 504 страници
...party hostile to the hierarchy, the bulk of * Lord Clarendon remarks, that " Clergymen understand thu least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can read or wrik." — Life, vol. ip 34. the Protestant community adhered to it, and would have been fully satisfied... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 474 страници
...worse, receive, for the most part, their informations and advertisements from clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." This anecdote, related hy the nohle historian, who had an intimate acquaintance with... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1827 - 838 страници
...worse, receive for the most part their informations and adO vertisements from clergymen who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read. Under this universal acquaintance and general acceptation, Mr. Hyde led for many years... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1827 - 566 страници
...worse, receive for the most part their informations and advertisements from clergymen who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read. Under this universal acquaintance and general acceptation, Mr. Hyde led for many years... | |
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Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read! 
