 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1926 - 196 páginas
...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...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, I do not envy a clergyman's... | |
 | John W. Carlton - 1993 - 140 páginas
...parson, and had a good living, and lived comfortably." Johnson replied, Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have...father of a larger family than he 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... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 páginas
...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,... 
