| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,"... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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