Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" The clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian class. And, indeed, for one who made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small to afford... "
Mr. Macaulay's Character of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth ... - Page 15
by Churchill Babington - 1849 - 116 pages
Full view - About this book

Mr. Macaulay's Character of the Clergy in the Latter Part of the Seventeenth ...

Churchill Babington - History - 1849 - 182 pages
...was consigned a very large proportion of the parishes of England before the Reformation." — Blunt's Reformation in England, pp. 65. 66. Have we never...always have been numerous)* or even from a lower grade, * The clergymen of the latter part of the seventeenth century whose parentage I have chanced to discover,...
Full view - About this book

The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...century which followed the accession of Elizabeth, scarce a single person of noble descent took orders. At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, two...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small to afford...
Full view - About this book

The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 550 pages
...century which followed the accession of Elizabeth, scarce a single person of noble descent took orders. At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, two...made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial ser vants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small...
Full view - About this book

The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...descent took orders. At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, two sons of peers wereBishops; four or five sons of peers were priests, and held...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small to afford...
Full view - About this book

The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...century which followed the accession of Elizabeth, scarce a single person of noble descent took orders. At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, two...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small to afford...
Full view - About this book

The English in Western India: Being the Early History of the Factory at ...

Philip Anderson - Bombay (India) - 1854 - 218 pages
...refers, when he describes with such exaggerations the degradation of the Clergy. He writes : — " The Clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants." And again ; — '' A young Lévite might be had for his board, a small garret, and ten pounds a year,"...
Full view - About this book

American Quarterly Church Review, and Ecclesiastical Register, Volume 9

1857 - 656 pages
...— with some satirical exaggeration, it may be, but with quite too much historic truth — when " the Clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants" — a state of things as bad for religion as for the Clergy. For, talk about spirituality and nnworldliness...
Full view - About this book

The Church review, and ecclesiastical register ..., Volume 9, Issues 1856-1857

1857 - 654 pages
...tells us—with some satirical exaggeration, it may be, but with quite too much historic truth—when " the Clergy were regarded as, on the whole, a plebeian...made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants"—a state of things as bad for religion as for the Clergy. For, talk about spirituality and...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: History of England

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1866 - 668 pages
...peers were priests, and held valuable prennent: but these rare exceptions did not take away the •oach which lay on the body. The clergy were regarded as,...figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants. A large proportion of those divines who had no benefices, or whose benefices were too small to afford...
Full view - About this book

The British Quarterly Review, Volume 35

Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 584 pages
...boisterous professional pride, and a most intolerant Toryism and bigotry. Long after 1662, for one clergymen 'who made ' the figure of a gentleman ten were mere menial servants.' ' The coarse and ignorant squire who thought that it belonged ' to his dignity to have grace said every...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF