 | 1911 - 492 páginas
...JOHNSON. ' 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. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...JOHNSON. "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...is able to maintain: I would rather have Chancery suits 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 páginas
...Johnson : 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...is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1926 - 196 páginas
...: ' 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...is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life,... | |
 | John W. Carlton - 1993 - 140 páginas
...replied, 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...is able to maintain. I would 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,... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 páginas
...comfortable cure. But Johnson held that the life of a parish priest is not easy. His parishioners are a larger family than he is able to maintain. ' I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.' They clubbed Pembroke memories, and Edwards mentioned... | |
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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,... 
