 The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach...  The Farmers' Register - Page 240edited by - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 504 pages
...well paid, and by my consent f houM be better, if they would pray oftener, and preach less : But, as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that •we can boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove diverswoithy men... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1810 - 874 pages
...Jtray oftcner and Jireach less. But, of all other commodities, so of tliis, the worst are tent ut ; and we had few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Croniiufll'a tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor... | |
 | John Wilson Campbell, Moses Hoge - 1813 - 322 pages
...well paid, and by my .consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less; but as of all other commodities so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that we can boast of since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men hither.... | |
 | 1826 - 558 pages
...well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less ; but as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that we can boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1826 - 538 pages
...well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less ; but as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that we can boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men... | |
 | François-Xavier Martin - 1829 - 472 pages
...well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener, and preach less; but, as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that we can boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 616 pages
...well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray offener, and preach less : But, as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and we have few that we can boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drove divers worthy men... | |
 | John Dunmore Lang - 1840 - 494 pages
...paying of your ministers ?" " We have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid. But as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us !''§ The original provision for the clergy of this colony, * Holmes' Annals. -f* Hemmings' Laws of... | |
 | Charles Campbell - 1847 - 220 pages
...are well paid and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less. But as of all other commodities so of this, the worst are sent us and we have had few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tyranny drovedivers men hither.... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pages
...are well paid, and by my consent would be better if they would pray oftener and preach less. But as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us : and we had fesv that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tiranny drove divers worthy men hither.... | |
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