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As there are certain mountebanks and quacks in physic, so there are much the same also in divinity. - Bishop Robert South The pulpit is a clergyman's parade; the parish is his field of active service. - Robert Southey Their sheep have crusts, and they the bread; The chips and they the cheer: They have the fleece, and eke the flesh, (O seely sheep the while!) The corn is theirs--let others thresh, Their hands they may not file. - Edmund Spenser His talk was now of tythes and flues; He smok'd his pipe, and read the news; Knew how to preach old sermons next, Vamp'd in the preface and the text; At christenings well could act his part, And had the service all by heart; Wish'd women might have children fast, And thought whose sow had farrow'd last; Against dissenters would repine, And stood up firm for right divine; Found his head fill'd with many a system, But classic authors--he ne'er miss'd 'em. - Jonathan Swift I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. - Jonathan Swift Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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