 We found more than two thousand people in the parish, almost all very poor; no gentry; a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. We saw but one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower-pot.  The first fifty years of the Sunday school - Sayfa 12William Henry Watson (secretary of the Sunday sch. union.) tarafından - 1873Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | 1867 - 816 sayfa
...to the village of Cheddar, within hearing, so to speak, of the organ in Wells Cathedral, says — " We found more than 200 people in the parish, almost...Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop up a flowerpot." Another witness, William Huntington, the well-known " sinner saved," thus delivers... | |
 | 1834 - 566 sayfa
...to see what we could do, for we were utterly at a loss how to begin. We found more than two thousand people in the parish, almost all very poor; no gentry;...dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. We visited them all, picking up at one house (like fortune-tellers) the name and character of the next.... | |
 | William Roberts - 1834 - 492 sayfa
...to see what we could do, for we were utterly at a loss how to begin. We found more than two thousand people in the parish, almost all very poor ; no gentry,...dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. We visited them all, picking up at one house, (like fortune-tellers) the name and character of the next.... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 sayfa
...Cheddar, (and this applies pretty accurately to the others,) that they found 'more than two thousand people in the parish, almost all very poor; no gentry;...dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant.' They visited them all; picking up, at one house, like fortune-tellers, the name and character of the... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 492 sayfa
...went to every house in the place, and found every house a scene of the greatest ignorance and vice. We saw but one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower-pot. No clergyman had resided in it for forty years. One rode over, three miles from Wells, to preach once... | |
 | James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1836 - 740 sayfa
...much as a resident curate. Three commonly gifted curates cannot serve eight churches." "At Cheddar we saw but one bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower-pot. No clergyman had resided in it for forty years. One rode over three miles from Wells to preach once... | |
 | Christian correspondent - 1837 - 422 sayfa
...to see what we could do, for we were utterly at a loss how to begin. We found more than two thousand people in the parish, almost all very poor: no gentry...dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. We visited them all, picking up at one house (like fortune-tellers) the name and character of the next.... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1838 - 228 sayfa
...there, to see what we could do, for we were utterly at a loss how to hegin. We found more than 2000 people in the parish, almost all very poor ; no gentry, a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, hrutal, and ignorant. We visited them all, picking up at one house (like fortune-tellers) the name... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 544 sayfa
...emharnMments hy which the progress of her henevolent enterprise was impeded. " We fonnd more than two thouvind people in the parish, almost all very poor ; no gentry, a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, hrutal, and ignorant. We saw hut one hihle in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower pot.... | |
 | 1870 - 406 sayfa
...Hannah More declares that in the village of Cheddar, near the Cathedral City of Wells, " she saw hut one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower pot 1 " It is ours to rejoice with thankfulness that the nation now presents so different an... | |
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