He expressed a wish that a better provision were made for parish-clerks.

Tradition speaks of him as a successful, benignant, and charitable parish priest, giving consolation to the afflicted and to the sick.

Such men Frank had met at neighbouring clerical meetings, overbearing and out-talking the elder and the wiser members; and finding that he got no good from them, had withdrawn into his parish-work, to eat his own heart, like Bellerophon of old.

It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age.

If he is not owned within a week, he must be given to the parish-officers.

The earth corresponds with surprising fertility to the labors of the Filipino, rewarding him, in the good seasons, with ninety, and even as high as one hundred per cent; a fact I have fully ascertained and of which I besides possess undoubted proofs, obtained from the parish-curates of La Pampanga.

The parish-book in which the number of the baptised is to be seen, confirms this observation.'

My parish learning I did win In ward of Farringdon-Within; Where, after school, I did pursue My sports, as little boys will do.

Russell was the son of a Perthshire parish minister, but his parents were dead, and he lived with an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Wilson, whose own family consisted of two sons and three daughters.

It is also true that Colonel Fraser was a gentleman, detesting the parish-burning to which his command was ordered for a time.

He is the poet of English parish festivals and of English flowers, the primrose, the whitethorn, the daffodil.

For he's more than a man; he's a part of the map; His going would cause a deplorable gap; And the village would suffer as heavy a slump As it would from the loss of the old parish pump.

Many families, that paid the parish-rates, are now extinct, like the race of Hercules: "Pulvis et umbra sumus."

As the parish records are in my keeping, I could but bestow the information sought, although with great sinking of heart, as a well-wisher to you, who, though given overmuch to worldly frivolities and revels, yet are a worthy citizen, and a charitable and a just.

It began on foot from his palace to his parish-church, and from thence in coaches to the opposite end of Paris, to be interred in the church of the Celestins, where is his family-vault.

Undaunted by obstacles and perils, the workers persevered, until in no less than ten parishes schools were commenced, which, before long, were attended by 1200 children.

The speaker's thoughts are now directed to his old parish servant, and to the old man's favourite stories of previous vicars under whom he has served.

" "I am exceedingly sorry, then, that I said a word about it: but the whole parish talks of it," answered Tom, who was surprised at this fresh proof of the little confidence which Aberalva put in their parson.

It was simply the English parish government brought into a new country and adapted to the new situation.