 | William Henry Foote - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...taken about the instructing the people within your government in the Christian religion?" says — " We have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, */ they would pray oftener and preach less. But of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 374
...parishes," adds Berkeley, from whose letter to the privy council in England this account is taken, " and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent...better, if they would pray oftener, and preach less." A little farther on, he thanks God there are neither schools nor printing-offices in the province,... | |
 | Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - 1853 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...parishes," adds Berkeley, from whose letter to the privy council in England this account is taken, " and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they wrould pray oftener, and preach less." A little farther on, he thanks God there are neither schools... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...consideration of the following extract from his answer to inquiries from the Committee of the Colonies: — ."We have forty-eight parishes and our ministers are...better, if they would pray oftener and preach less. * * * * * * Yet I thank God, there are no free schools and no printing, and, I hope, we shall not have... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...his own children according to hij own ability. Wo have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers art* well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftem-r, and preach less. But as of all other commodities, to of this, tho worst are sent ns, and we... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...for one * Virginia's Cure, 4. Campbell, 79. Sir William Berkeley, writing in 1670 or 1671, said: " Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should...other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent to us." (Campbell, 79.) The old Cavalier disliked popular education, and a preaching ministry as an... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...one * Virginia's Cure, 4. Campbell, 79. Sir William Berkeley, writing in 1670 or 1671, said : " Oar ministers are well paid, and by my consent should...other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent to us." (Campbell, 79.) The old Cavalier disliked popular education, and a preaching ministry as an... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...ability. W« have forty-eight parishe*, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent sboulil be better, if they would pray oftener, and preach...less. But as of all other commodities, so of this, the wont are sent us, and we have few that we can boast o( slnco tho persecution In Cromwell's tyranny... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...for one * Virginia's Cure, 4. Campbell, 79. Sir William Berkeley, writing in 1670 or 1671, said : " Our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftencr and preach less. But as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent to us." (... | |
 | William Allen - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 926
...July 13, 1677. The following extract from his answer in June, 1671, to inquiries of the committee for the colonies, is a curious specimen of his loyalty...by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftencr and preach less ; but, as of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us, and... | |
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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... 
