 | 1801 - 574 頁
...such is 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.... | |
 | 1829 - 566 頁
...intimacy with all that was distinguished among the ecclesiastics of his age, that melancholy averment : ' Clergymen * understand the least, and take the worst measure of human ' affairs, of all mankind that can write and read.' Burnet would tell us, on his Episcopal knowledge and authority, what the... | |
 | George Horne - 1808 - 320 頁
...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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1924 - 506 頁
...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... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 頁
...in difference were." 14. Lord Clarendon, somewhere in his Life, makes this severe reflection — " That clergymen understand " the least, and take the worst measure of human af" fairs, of all mankind that can read and write." Cited by Temple, in his Essay on the Clergy, p.... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 570 頁
...that 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... | |
 | George Brodie - 1822 - 504 頁
...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... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 474 頁
...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." This anecdote, related hy the nohle historian, who had an intimate acquaintance... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1827 - 566 頁
...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... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1827 - 838 頁
...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... | |
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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. 
