 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 562 pages
...allusion to the noted 6th of October. If lord Clarendon's remark of clergymen, that they " understand the least and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can write and read," be correct, we may say that it applies with peculiar force to dissenting teachers,... | |
 | 1845 - 696 pages
...by Clarendon, who had painful experience of the truth of his statement, that such men " understood the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can write and read ;" and on the present occasion, with that perverse infatuation, which has led the supporters... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1846 - 478 pages
...Lord Clarendon, somewhere in his Life, makes this severe reflection — " That clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs,...clergymen may do their country in matters civil and temporal. — The reason of the abovementioned circumstance it might be curious to investigate. 15.... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare - 1847 - 186 pages
...deliberations : for, though some of the causes which led Clarendon to pronounce that clergymen " understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read" (Life VI p. 74), may be less operative now than two centuries ago, from the greater... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1849 - 208 pages
...blasphemous against his holiness of Rome. Clergymen. — Lord Clarendon remarks, that " Clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can read and write." Lingua Franca. — The dialect spoken chiefly along the European and African coast of the Mediterranean.... | |
 | 1850 - 590 pages
...people ; and as Clarendon long ago remarked of the established clergymen of his day, they " understand the least and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can write and read." But if, by " the church," is meant the members of the church, we deny the accuracy... | |
 | John Henry Newman (card.) - 1851 - 400 pages
...works well." In like manner, a great statesman says of Protestant Clergymen, that they " understand least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." Yet any one is thought qualified to attack, or to instruct a Catholic in matters of... | |
 | Saint John Henry Newman - Anti-Catholicism - 1851 - 426 pages
...works well." In like manner, a great statesman says of Protestant Clergymen, that they " understand least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." Yet any one is thought qualified to attack, or to instruct a Catholic in matters of... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Political science - 1852 - 500 pages
...stimulating their antipathy against the better class of citizens.' ("J ' That clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read.'H (66) iravra\ov 6ia Tb avurov % ardo-is. — Aristot. Pol. V. 1. (67) irovrjp6<pi\ov... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - Church management - 1857 - 704 pages
...and entirely the same in spirit, as that of Lord Clarendon, when he says that, " Clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure, of human affairs, of all mankind that can read and write." Hence they do, unquestionably, — apart from the ungracefulness of such an attempt at self-exaltation,... | |
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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! 
