Clergymen of the Church of England

The popular idea of an Irish clergyman in England is, we think, somewhat incorrect. He is often supposed to be an idle man, listless for want of occupation, given to self-indulg...

The parish parson generally has a grievance, and is much attached to it,--in which he is like all other men in all other walks of life. He not uncommonly maintains a mild opposi...

Nevertheless, archdeacons are seldom allowed to starve. The bishops have it in their power to look to that, and knowing that in these days starving men seldom can exercise much...

But when such good things were going who were the men who got them? And to this may be added a further question, How far did they deserve the good things which were given to the...

Does any man believe that that very pleasant fellow whom he has known at college, and who has sparkled so brightly in common room, who has been so energetic in the management of...

The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He is still a nobleman of the highest ran...

But our business at present is with the teacher, and not with the taught. Of him we may declare that he is, almost always, a true man,--true in spite of that subrisive smile and...