 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...primacy was offered to Butler, but he declined it, saying, as the tradition of bis family reports it, that ' It was too late for him to try to support a falling church.' His nephew John, the same who preferred the vice to the Analogy, took a view of his own of the archbishopric... | |
 | Great Britain - 1844 - 582 pages
...unfavourable a view of the then state of things, as to have remarked, as a reason for refusing the primacy, that it was " too late for him to try to support a falling church.'' The dangers that then beset our church have passed away, and others have in turn threatened it since... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - Biography - 1839 - 586 pages
...of the national establishment, from the alarming temper of the times. He is said to have answered, that, " It was too late for him to try to support a falling Church *." The apprehensions of the good prelate, however, were happily not realized. The church of England,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 552 pages
...primacy was offered to Butler, but he declined it, saying as the tradition of his family reports it, that ' It was too late for him to try to support a falling cburch.' His nephew Jobn, the same who preferred the vice to the Analogy, took a view of his own of... | |
 | 1840 - 538 pages
...of the national establishment, from the alarming temper of the times. He is said to have answered, that, ' It was too late for him to try to support a falling church.' ' The apprehensions of the good prelate, however, were happily not realized. The Church of England,... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 476 pages
...Archbishop Potter, it is said that the primacy was offered to Butler, who declined it, with the remark that "it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." If he really said so, it must have been in a moment of despondency, to which his constitutional melancholy... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1857 - 372 pages
...before been offered the Primacy, on the death of Archbishop Potter, but declined it, with the remark that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." On assuming his diocese at Durham, Butler delivered and published his famous Charge to the Clergy,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 984 pages
...Archbishop Potter, it is said that the primacy was offered to Butler, who declined it, with the remark that "it was too late for him to try to support a falling church." If he really said so, it must have been in a moment of despondency, to which his constitutional melancholy... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1860 - 494 pages
...death of Archbishop Potter, in 1747, the Primacy was offered to him, he declined it, with the remark, that, " it was too late for him to try to support a falling Church." He had not learned, like Waller, that " the falling Church had a trick of rising again :" but he should... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1862 - 574 pages
...him on its next avoidance. He is said to have refused the Archbishopric of Canterbury in 1747, saying that it was too late for him to try to support a falling Church. Perhaps this refusal, if the story be true, may have arisen from an inward consciousness that his strength... | |
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This he refused, saying, in his melancholy way, that " it was too late for him to try to support a falling church. 
