 | 1801 - 574 pages
...now at fifty, the 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... | |
 | George Horne - English essays - 1808 - 320 pages
...Lord Clarendon, somewhere in his Life, makes this severe reflection—" That clergymen un" derstand the least, and take the worst measure " of human affairs, of all mankind that can read " and write." Cited by Temple, in his Essay on the Clergy, p. 22. See his last chapter, On the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1924 - 506 pages
...decrepitude 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, like Agag,... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 570 pages
...monarch, though there was 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... | |
 | George Brodie - Great Britain - 1822 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | James Nichols - Arminianism - 1824 - 474 pages
...which is worse, receive, for the most part, their informations and advertisements from clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of...affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." This anecdote, related hy the nohle historian, who had an intimate acquaintance with the Archhishop,... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 838 pages
...which is 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 as cheerful... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1827 - 566 pages
...which is 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 as cheerful... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Great Britain - 1830 - 592 pages
...men above their own condition. They receive, for the most part, their information from clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of...affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." * The Life of Lord Clarendon, i. 1.5. There is a severity of truth in this reflection, but it is not... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 930 pages
...by the reflection which bitter experience wrung from him as to ecclesiastics in general, that they " understand the least and take the worst measure of...human affairs of all mankind that can write and read." A curious practical illustration of Laud's aptitude as a statesman is afforded by his sage scheme for... | |
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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 /" — the clergy, it seems, had rather the world should go to pieces than that this rubric should be abolished. 
