 | Matthew Arnold - Copyright - 1882 - 344 pages
...should be written up over the portal of the Lower House of Convocation : ' 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1883 - 430 pages
...sincere friend of the Church of England, to that terrible sentence of his : " Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read !" The truly desirable, the indispensable change in the regulation of burials, is to... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Democracy - 1883 - 540 pages
...should be written up over the portal of the Lower House of Convocation : " 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1886 - 522 pages
...regarding this most " important matter, equally affecting both countries ? " " Clergymen, who understand the least, and take the worst measure, of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read," said Clarendon. He had in view, of course, the Anglican clerisy. It is surprising... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1891 - 582 pages
...years have not mended matters much) Lord Clarendon's description of the clergymen : ' who understand the least, and take the worst measure of, human affairs, of all mankind that can read and write.' We should have liked to have dwelt upon the Archbishop's attitude towards Ritualists and Ritualism,... | |
 | William Winter - Theater - 1891 - 114 pages
...directly connected with ocean travel. Clarendon, the old historian, said that " clergymen understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind who can read and write " ; and perhaps you will think there is occasionally some ground for his extreme... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - English essays - 1892 - 374 pages
...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.' It is easy to fa-ace in this celebrated passage the inward satisfaction with which... | |
 | Christian union - 1892 - 460 pages
...Claret, don, quoted with approval by Mr. Stead, that the clergy are a class of men " who understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can read and write." I think this is an exaggeration. For myself, I should have put it far less strongly, although, when... | |
 | Union University (Schenectady, N.Y.) - 1897 - 550 pages
...clergyman and devoted to his calling, he was an exception to the criticism that "clergymen understand the least and take the worst measure of human affairs of all mankind that can write and read." In his lectureroom the two functions were as parts to the whole. He there inculcated... | |
 | John Morley - 1900 - 620 pages
...ecclesiastical institution. Clarendon says of the clergymen of his day in wellknown words, that "they understand the least, and take the worst measure of human affairs, of all mankind that can write and read." In no age have they been admired as magistrates or constables. The jurisdiction of... | |
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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! 
