| Robert Steel - 1864 - 396 pagina’s
...system quoted from an anonymous pamphlet the opinion of one who was understood to be a high authority, " That after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." Everybody knew that the author was Dr. Chalmers. After a short time for reflection, he arose and thus... | |
| 1864 - 536 pagina’s
...assert, from what to him •is the highest of all authority, the ' authority of his own experience, that, ' after the satisfactory discharge of his 'parish duties, a minister may enjoy ' live days in the week of uninterrupted 'leisure for the prosecution of any ' science in which his... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1867 - 526 pagina’s
...published twenty years before, the assertion of the author, based, he said, on his own experience, that, "after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...duties, a minister may enjoy five days in the week in uninterrupted leisure for the prosecution of any science in which his tastes may dispose him to... | |
| lord Henry Thomas Cockburn - 1872 - 426 pagina’s
...Scottish Clergy." This was the famous pamphlet in which he stated, on the authority of his own experience, that, " after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." This was said before he became religious ; and a noble explanation did he give, when it was quoted... | |
| Andrew James Symington - 1878 - 190 pagina’s
...already alluded, — namely, " That a minister could satisfactorily discharge all his parish duties and enjoy five days in the week of uninterrupted leisure for the prosecution of science." The authorship of the passage quoted, though unacknowledged, was well known. All eyes were... | |
| Norman Lockhart Walker - 1880 - 186 pagina’s
...can assert, from what to him is the highest possible authority, the authority of his own experience, that after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." "What made the life of a minister such a light one in his view was, that it was so easy to write sermons.... | |
| John Cunningham - 1882 - 942 pagina’s
...When minister of Kilmany, he had asserted in a pamphlet, called forth by the Leslie Controversy, " that after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." But the importance of the ministerial work had been gradually growing in his mind ; he had discovered... | |
| Jean L. Watson - 1882 - 142 pagina’s
...following sentence — "after the satisfactory discharge of his parish duties a minister may occupy five days in the week of uninterrupted leisure, for...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." A speaker at this time having referred to this youthful production of his pen, in order to twit him... | |
| 1852 - 330 pagina’s
...give his name — closed his address by quoting from an anonymous pamphlet a statement to the eflect, that ' after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage.' All eyes were instantly turned upon Chalmers. But the doctor was nothing abashed. Having risen to speak... | |
| Thomas Mason - 1885 - 472 pagina’s
...satisj'actory discharge of his parish duties, a minister may enjoy Jive days a week ofuninten-upted leisure for the prosecution of any science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." In this way he proceeded to prove that a clergyman was even better fitted for engaging in mathematical... | |
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