 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 pages
...EDWARDS. "I wish I had continued at College. I should have been a parson, and had a good living." JOHNSON. "Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman,...do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life. ' ' • — Here taking himself up all of a sudden, he exclaimed, " 0 ! Mr. Edwards ! I '11 convince... | |
 | charles grosvenor osgood - 1917 - 606 pages
...been a parson, and had a good living, like Bloxam and several others, and lived comfortably.' JOHNSON. 'Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman,...is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suite upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 274 pages
...Johnson had an opening here, and took it. " I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands," he said, " than the cure of souls. No, sir, I do not envy a clergyman's...do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Edwards, however, did. There is no evidence that the Doctor convinced him. My impression is that he... | |
 | James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...a parson, and had a good living, like Bloxham and several others, and lived comfortably." JOHNSON. "Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious^ clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered alt , clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is f. able to maintain. I would rather have... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1926 - 196 pages
...parson, and had a good living, like Bloxham and several others, and lived comfortably.' JOHNSON : ' Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman,...do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.' * * * "EDWARDS: 'You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher... | |
 | John W. Carlton - 1993 - 140 pages
...been. I should have been a parson, and had a good living, and lived comfortably." Johnson replied, Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman,...rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the care of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 pages
...of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy," Johnson remarked to Oliver Edwards in 1778. "I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. 1 would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls" (Boswell, Boswell's Life of... | |
 | Warren W. Wiersbe - 2002 - 180 pages
...been. I should have been a parson, and had a good living." "No, sir," replied Johnson emphatically, "I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life,...do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life." Paul would have agreed with Samuel Johnson, for he often used the Greek verb agonizomai when referring... | |
 | Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) - 1897 - 588 pages
...comfortable cure. But Johnson held that the life of a parish priest is not easy. His parishioners are a larger family than he is able to maintain. ' I would...chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.' They clubbed Pembroke memories, and Edwards mentioned a gentleman who had left his whole fortune to... | |
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Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir,... 
