 was wont in his humorous way to say of his chaplain, Dr. Barrow, 'that he was the most unfair preacher in England, because he exhausted every subject and left no room for others to come after him.' This was indeed too much the doctor's  Memorials of St. James's Palace - Page 363by Edgar Sheppard - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Herman Diederik J. van Schevichaven - 1881 - 396 pages
...From that day forth Lord Coningsby was called " Atterbury's Pad." EXHAUSTIVE PREACHING. |HARLES II. was wont in his humorous way to say of his chaplain,...subject, and left no room for others to come after him." It was, indeed, too much the doctor's way ; when he got hold of a topic, he never knew how to leave... | |
 | Stacey Grimaldi - 1881 - 434 pages
...died. 1672. The king told the celebrated Dr. Isaac Barrow (the Chaplain), he was an unfair preacher, because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. I conceive, however, there was some truth, as well as humour, in what the king said, for it is recorded,... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1889 - 298 pages
...best scholar in England. In his royal airy fashion the King used to call him " an unfair preacher," because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. The expression of the King's is so critically appreciative that scarcely anyone who makes an estimate... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - Archaeology - 1889 - 324 pages
...best scholar in England. In his royal airy fashion the King used to call him " an unfair preacher," because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. The expression of the King's is so critically appreciative that scarcely anyone who makes an estimate... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1892 - 338 pages
...vacancy.” Of Barrow, he said that ‘he was an unfair preacher,' 2 because, as it has been explained, he exhausted every subject and left no room for others to come after him ;.— but the King's allusion was made somewhat slyly to the length as well as excellence of Barrow's... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1896 - 298 pages
...vacancy.' 1 Of Barrow, he said that ' he was an unfair preacher,' 2 because, as it has been explained, he exhausted every subject and left no room for others to come after him ;— but the King's allusion was made somewhat slyly to the length as well as excellence of Barrow's... | |
 | Baptists - 1815 - 640 pages
...was one, that Sir Isaac Newton was his pupil. Charles the Second used to call him an unfair preacher, because he exhausted every subject, and left no room for others to come after him. The editor remarks, in a note, " that it was satirically said of Charles the Second, that he never... | |
 | Arthur Irwin Dasent - Actors - 1924 - 360 pages
...until he had " blowed him down "! The King was wont to describe his chaplain as an unfair preacher because he " exhausted every subject and left no room for others to come after him." Another of Charles's witticisms in connection with the clergy was his saying of Woolley l that he was... | |
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