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...grandfadder was de Reverend Barton Dowden, a Presbyterian parson. And he had a great-grandfadder who was a manager of Plantation Vyfuisheid on de West Coast-a pure white...
After losing a few more amatory battles, the squire is ready to offer his hand and fortune in marriage. Shamela has a moment of doubt. She still nurses a soft spot in her heart for a certain "jolly Parson" to whom she had borne an illegitimate child. But she consoles herself with another of mamma's maxims: "A married Woman injures only her Husband, but a single Woman herself." Like Pamela, she goes through with the marriage...
Niebuhr attacks the frequent clerical fallacy that under socialism "motives of service" would supplant the "profit motive." That idea "invested a collectivist system with a moral sanction it did not deserve . . . The so-called 'profit motive' can hardly be eliminated under any system . . . Every parson who speaks grandly about supplanting [it] exemplifies it when he moves to a new charge because the old one did not give him ... a salary adequate for his growing family...
...almost 100 years since an English novelist named Elizabeth Gaskell found herself journeying to a sleepy parsonage in Yorkshire, where lived the Rev. Patrick Brontë, an old man, craggy and almost blind. Her mission was to write a biography of Parson Brontë's daughter Charlotte, who had died of consumption only a few months earlier, at 39, in the full flush of her fame and notoriety as the author of Jane Eyre. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë proved to be one of the great English biographies. Dozens more have since told the Bront...
Imaginary Angria. As Mrs. Gaskell surveyed the ruin of the Brontës-Charlotte, Emily and Anne destroyed by consumption, their brother Branwell wrecked by opium and liquor-she could hardly resist making their father the villain of her story. In her version, Parson Brontë emerged as a man of intellectual vanity and eccentricity, who would fire his pistol in the air when annoyed with his family, who once sawed up all the chairs in his wife's bedroom while the poor woman lay in bed in one of her confinements. But to Biographer Lane, the real villains...