 | Thomas Mason - 1885 - 466 pagina’s
...Dr. Chalmers, then a young man, who in a pamphlet published at Cupar made the remarkable statement, " that after the satisfactory discharge of his parish duties, a minister may enjoy Jive days a week of uninterrupted leisure for the prosecution of any science in. which his taste may... | |
 | 1894 - 680 pagina’s
...literature. The daties of his parish sat very lightly upon him. He declared it "his own experience, that, after the satisfactory discharge of his parish duties, a minister may enjoy live days in the week in uninterrupted leisure for the prosecution of any science in which his taste... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant - 1896 - 308 pagina’s
...what was to him the highest of all authority—the authority of his own experience—he could assert that " after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...which his taste may dispose him to engage." It was a perfectly legitimate use against himself of the early utterance of his youth, an expedient which... | |
 | W. Stephen - 1896 - 782 pagina’s
...opposed pluralities. During the Leslie controversy he published an anonymous pamphlet, in which he said " that after the satisfactory discharge of his parish...days in the week of uninterrupted leisure for the proseAD 1829 PLURALITIES, AND FOREIGN MISSIONS 585 cution of any science in which his taste may dispose... | |
 | William Beveridge - 1908 - 252 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 a gulf there is between such a statement and the one which he penned in his private journal some... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - 618 pagina’s
...pamphlet can 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...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage. In as far, then, as the command of time is concerned, it will be difficult to find a situation in the... | |
 | Lord Henry Cockburn Cockburn - 1910 - 556 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 against... | |
 | 1849 - 720 pagina’s
...that "it required almost no consumption of intellectual effort" to discharge pastoral duty; and "that a minister may enjoy five days in the week of uninterrupted...the prosecution of any science in which his taste might dispose him to engage." The low estimate he evidently put upon the pastoral office, the appalling... | |
 | 1853 - 624 pagina’s
...can 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...science in which his taste may dispose him to engage." On account of this and similar passages, he strove at a later period to suppress the pamphlet. "You... | |
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Chalmers here writes, with the honesty and intrepidity which were part of his being, — " the author of this pamphlet can assert, from what to him is the ' highest of all authority, the authority of his own experience, that, after the satisfactory discharge... 
