Parish Quotes
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More Parish Quotes
Elsdon was once a market town as some say, and a city according to others; but as the annals of the parish were lost several centuries ago, it is impossible to determine what age it was either the one or the other. There are not the least traces of the former grandeur to be found, whence some antiquaries are apt to believe that it lost both its trade and charter at the Deluge.
charles dodgson— Quoted in Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 4
And to me it seems that you have fallen asleep upon a white rock, and in a parish of dreams , and have dreamt all this in a moment while it was night .
anatole france— Philopatris, xxi, as translated in the epigraph, p. 8
When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.
Liam O'Flaherty— 'The Mermaid'.
It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.
john ruskin— 1862 Unto this Last, preface.
[To] have an unmannerly fat clerk ask the consent of every butcher in the parish to join John Absolute and Lydia Languish, spinster.Oh that I should live to hear myself called spinster!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan— 1775 Lydia Languish, who had hoped for a romantic elopement. The Rivals, act 5, sc.1.
I look upon all the world as my parish.
john wesley— 1739 Journal entry,11 Jun.
The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
thomas malthus— Chapter IV, paragraph 13, lines 11-15
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
thomas malthus— Chapter V, paragraph 13, lines 1-3
I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty , to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
john wesley— Journal (11 June 1739).
The love of independence is a sentiment that surely none would wish to see erased from the breast of man, though the parish law of England, it must be confessed, is a system of all others the most calculated gradually to weaken this sentiment, and in the end may eradicate it completely.
— Chapter IV, paragraph 13, lines 11-15 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.
— Chapter V, paragraph 13, lines 1-3 (An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised))
This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying, Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
— Henry Porter, The Proverb Monger, from Two Angry Women of Abindon.
A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.
— p.12 (Sanitary Economy (1850))
We had nae heed for the parish bell, But still when the bugle cried, We went for you to Neuve Chapelle, We went for you to the yetts o' Hell, And there for you we died!
neil munro— Roving Lads. (1915).
The why is plain as way to parish church.
— Jaques, Sc. vii
