Author: F. Arnold

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-19

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780484158251

Excerpt from Our Bishops and Deans, Vol. 2 of 2 There is then all the difference in the world between a literary bishop and a literary dean. The deanery confers the leisure which the bishopric takes away. AS a rule, the deans are more literary than the bishops; but there are bishops whom no deans have ever approached in the domain of letters. In one sense all bishops may courteously be called literary just as barristers are called learned. We suppose that there is no bishop on the bench who has not at least printed a charge or a sermon. Some of these charges are extremely valuable. Any one, for instance, who would examine carefully the whole series of charges delivered, almost synchronically, by Bishop Wilber force and Bishop Thirlwall, would obtain a very accu rate idea Of the History of the Church of England within the last generation. The interest of the history would be none the less because we should have it from two different points of view. What may be called bishops' literature does not, as a rule, count for very much. It is not SO extensive as deans' literature, for the Obvious reason that bishops have not the leisure to be literary. Read this when you are at leisure, said a friend to a dignitary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.