 | 1867 - 816 pages
...Cheddar, within hearing, so to speak, of the organ in Wells Cathedral, says — " We found more than 200 people in the parish, almost all very poor ; no gentry...wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. . . . We saw but one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop up a flowerpot." Another witness, William... | |
 | 1834 - 1012 pages
...Hannah More tells him, respecting Cheddar, (and this applies pretty accurately to the others,) that they found 'more than two thousand people in the parish,...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... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1838 - 228 pages
...deplorahle state of that place, (Cheddar,) my sister and I went and took a lodging at a little puhlic-house 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... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 544 pages
...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.... | |
 | Hannah More - 1839 - 570 pages
...specifies the vexatious emharrassments hy which the progress of her henevolent enterprise was impelled. " We found more than two thousand people in the parish,...very poor; no gentry, a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, hrotal, and ignorant. We saw hut one hihle in all the parish, and that was used to prop a flower pot.... | |
 | 1855 - 602 pages
...best described bv the following extract from a letter of Miss More to her friend Wilberforce : — " We found more than two thousand people in the parish,...dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. We saw but one Bible in all the parish, »nd that was used to prop a flowerpot. No clergyman had resided... | |
 | 1867 - 854 pages
...Cheddar, within hearing, so to speak, of the organ in Wells Cathedral, gays — " We found more than 200 people in the parish, almost all very poor ; no gentry...wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and ignorant. . . . We saw but one Bible in all the parish, and that was used to prop up a flower-pot." Another witness, William... | |
 | Lewis Glover Pray - 1847 - 384 pages
...the establishment of the first school in Gloucester, by Raikes. " After the discoveries," she says, " made of the deplorable state of that place, my sister...utterly at a loss how to begin. We found more than two hundred people in the parish ; almost all very poor ; no gentry ; a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal,... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - 1848 - 412 pages
...were the immediate cause of our taking up. "After the discoveries made of the deplorable state of the place, my sister and I went and took a lodging at...utterly at a loss how to begin. We found more than 2000 people in the parish, almost all poor ; no gentry, a dozen wealthy farmers, hard, brutal, and... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 454 pages
...going to the village of Cheddar, near the cathedral city of Wells, " we found more than " two hundred people in the parish, almost all very poor ; " no...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 ! " Traces of ancient... | |
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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. 
