 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1912 - 702 lehte
...in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness. — JOHN HALL. • I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life, — SAMUEL JOHNSON. Be ashamed of nothing but sin. — METHODIST DISCIPLINE. A true minister... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1915 - 260 lehte
...opening here, and took it. " I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands," he said, " than the care of souls. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life...life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Edwards, however, did. There is no evidence that the Doctor convinced him. My impression is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 lehte
...continued at College. I should have been a parson, and had a good living." JOHNSON. "Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. ' ' • — Here taking himself up all of a sudden, he exclaimed, " 0 ! Mr. Edwards ! I '11 convince... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 lehte
...had a good living, like Bloxam and several others, and lived comfortably.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suite upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life,... | |
 | George Lacey May - 1920 - 242 lehte
...had a good living, like Bloxham and several others, and live comfortably. Johnson : Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. In the same spirit of sincerity he more than once refused to take Holy Orders, when urged to... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 274 lehte
...Johnson had an opening here, and took it. " I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands," he said, " than the cure of souls. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's...life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Edwards, however, did. There is no evidence that the Doctor convinced him. My impression is... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 lehte
...a good living, like Bloxham and several others, and lived comfortably." JOHNSON. "Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious^ clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered alt , clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is f. able to maintain. I would rather have... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1926 - 196 lehte
...good living, like Bloxham and several others, and lived comfortably.' JOHNSON : ' Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' * * * "EDWARDS: 'You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher... | |
 | John W. Carlton - 1993 - 140 lehte
...have been a parson, and had a good living, and lived comfortably." Johnson replied, Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy....rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the care of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 lehte
...of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy," Johnson remarked to Oliver Edwards in 1778. "I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. 1 would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls" (Boswell, Boswell's Life of... | |
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Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir,... 
