The energies of the indefatigable parson knew no bounds.
The word parson is properly used only of a rector.
There are four requisites to the appointment of a parson, viz.
He worked with the village parson in his spare hours at classics and studied music under the organist.
His greatest patron here was Dr. Richard Kaye, an able cleric who rose from country parson to Dean of Lincoln.
Parson Woodforde records many purchases made at Daniel Prince's bookshop between 1759 and 1775, and also socialized with him at his house.
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight.
In those days it was by no means unusual to hear the parson publicly rebuking offenders - even calling them by name.
Whilst the village parson would often engage in illicit smuggling, other smugglers too were not quite what they seemed.
He styles himself a ' sporting parson ', claiming to spend at least two days a week hunting and shooting.
The walk through Parson's Bridge and views from the cairn itself provide ample recompense for the exertions!
While other founder members, including Hubert Parson, became lavish spenders on an opulent lifestyle, Sum remained the epitome of normality.
A resident reported that the broken streetlight beside the old surgery in Parson's Field was now working.
The walk through Parson 's Bridge and views from the cairn itself provide ample recompense for the exertions !
Parson Woodforde records many purchases made at Daniel Prince 's bookshop between 1759 and 1775, and also socialized with him at his house.
A resident reported that the broken streetlight beside the old surgery in Parson 's Field was now working.
Jasinski, a public relations manager, attended the Parson's School of Design made famous by Project Runway and at Fashion Art Italy, a design school located in Florence Italy.
The Jack Russell, a close cousin of the Parson Terrier, is a high energy dog that is a lot of fun.
Marc Jacobs attended Parson's School of Design, earning multiple high honors and praise in 1984.
Born April 9, 1963, he graduated from the High School of Art and Design in 1981, whereupon he enrolled in Parson's School of Design.
It was at Parson that Jacobs put together his first collection which consisted of hand-knit sweaters.
Hilfiger has received numerous awards from the fashion industry, including "Designer of the Year" by Parson's School of Design, and "Man of the Year" by GQ Magazine.
Born and bred in New York City, Marc Jacobs studied at Parson's school of design.
Parsons - Made more famous by Bravo's Project Runway, Parson's had already made a name for itself long before the highly rated show came along.
Then in 1763 was delivered his speech in "The Parson's Cause" - a suit brought by a clergyman, Rev. James Maury, in the Hanover County Court, to secure restitution for money considered by him to be due on account of his salary (16,000 pounds of tobacco by law) having been paid in money calculated at a rate less than the current market price of tobacco.
In the Prologue to the "Parson's Tale" (so) there is, on the other hand, a mistake of Chaucer's own, which no judicious critic would think of removing, the constellation Libra being said to be "the moon's exaltation" when it should be Saturn's.
Boyd (1825-1899), minister of St Andrews, was widely known by the numerous volumes of essays, especially the " Recreations of a Country Parson."
The Whig ministry, then slowly but surely losing the support of the country, were divided in opinion as to the propriety of prosecuting this zealous parson.
While other founder members, including Hubert Parson, became lavish spenders on an opulent lifestyle, some remained the epitome of normality.
Even more alarming was the smell of burning brimstone that hung over the ruins of the parson's house.
But parson or not he had heard the old stories about the riches that lay buried beneath the now grassy mounds.
Why should you dress to go and take a cup of tea with an old parson?
You must forgive my ignorance, my dear fellow, but being a simple country parson, legal matters are not exactly my forte.
Indeed their local parson is a loyal supporter and follower of hounds on his Welsh cob.
It is thus with the welsh parson of the past.
She is also growing very close to the young parson, John Becker.
Chicheley was parson of Sherston, Wiltshire, and prebendary of Nantgwyly in the college of Abergwilly, North Wales; on the 23rd of February 1401/2, now called doctor of laws, he was pardoned for bringing in, and allowed to use, a bull of the pope " providing " him to the chancellorship of Salisbury cathedral, and canenries in the nuns' churches of Shaftesbury and Wilton in that diocese; and on the 9th of January 1402/3 he was archdeacon of Salisbury.
Pope was never tired of girding at "Morality by her false guardians drawn, Chicane in furs, and casuistry in lawn"; while Fielding has embodied the popular conception of a casuist in Parson Thwackum and Philosopher Square, both of whom only take to argument when they want to reason themselves out of some obvious duty.
The usual prefix of address of a parson was "sir," representing Lat.
Roles within the church also gave rise to a number of occupation-related surnames, including Abbott, Bishop, Cannon, Chaplin, Parson, and Sexton.
In 14th-century documents it is described as a town or borough governed by a portreeve, who frequently came into conflict with the parson of St John's church, who had become lord of the manor of Yeovil during the reign of Henry III.
On the title-page of The Triumphs of Petrarke, Fowler styles himself "P. of Hawick," which has been held to mean that he was parson of Hawick, but this is doubtful.
The practical difficulty of the constitutional problem gave the "court parson" - as Gneisenau had contemptuously called him - excuse enough for a change of front which, incidentally, would please his exalted patrons.
In his boyhood, according to the usual accounts, he resided for some time at Dunipace, in Stirlingshire, with an uncle, who is styled "parson" of the place.
His conversational abilities won him the friendship of Lord Macclesfield (chief justice 1710-1718) who introduced him to Addison, described by Mandeville as "a parson in a tye-wig."
Among his numerous publications may be specially mentioned the '.two works (each in three series), Recreations of a Country Parson (1859, 1861 and 1878), and Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson (1862-1865 and 1875); he also wrote Twenty-five Years at St Andrews (1892), and St Andrews and Elsewhere (1894).
In American balladry he was pre-eminent; such pieces as " The Swan Song of Parson Avery," " Marguerite," " Barclay of Ury," " Skipper Ireson's Ride," " In the ` Old South,' " hold their place in literature.
By the 64th canon it is enacted that " every parson, vicar or curate, shall in his several charge declare to the people every Sunday at the time appointed in the communion-book [which is, after the Nicene creed has been repeated] whether there be any holy-days or fast-days the week following."
A parson must be in holy orders; hence a lay rector could not be called a parson.
The parson is tenant for life of the parsonage house, the glebe, the tithes and other dues, so far as they are not appropriated.
By this time Dozsa was losing control of the rabble, which had fallen under the influence of the socialist parson of Czegled, Lorincz Meszaros.
This included A Priest to the Temple; or, The Country Parson, his Character, and Rule of Holy Life, in prose; Jacula prudentum, a collectioia,of proverbs with a separate title-page dated 1651, which had appeared in a shorter form as Outlandish Proverbs in 1640; and some miscellaneous matter.
Besides some archaeological articles in the Nineteenth Century and contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, he published a History of the Diocese of Norwich (1879); The Coming of the Friars (1885); The Autobiography of Roger North (1887) and Trials of a Country Parson (1890).
The tithes of tithable cattle pasturing in any waste or common ground, whereof the parish is not certainly known, were made payable to the parson of the parish where the cattle dwell by a statute of Edward VI.
There is nothing in the book inconsistent with Swift's professed and real character as a sturdy Church of England parson, who accepted the doctrines of his Church as an essential constituent of the social order around him, battled for them with the fidelity of a soldier defending his colours, and held it no part of his duty to understand, interpret, or assimilate them.
It is a corruption of persona, the parson being, as it were, the persona ecclesiae, or representative of the Church in the parish.
Parson imparsonee (persona impersonata) is he that as rector is in possession of a church parochial, and of whom the church is full, whether it be presentative or impropriate (Coke upon Littleton, 300 b).
Except, however, where made under parliamentary authority, no composition for tithes, although made between the landowner and the parson or vicar with the consent of the patron and ordinary, bound a succeeding incumbent, the statute 13 Eliz.
Map's career was an active and varied one; he was clerk of the royal household and justice itinerant; in 1179 he was present at the Lateran council at Rome, on his way thither being enter tained by the count of Champagne; at this time he apparentm held a plurality of ecclesiastical benefices, being a prebend of St Paul's, canon and precentor of Lincoln and parson of Westbury, Gloucestershire.
But no collection has been made of some of his more characteristic writings in the Christian Socialist and Politics for the People, many of them signed by the pseudonym he then assumed, "Parson Lot."
In the evening of the 18th of April 1775 a British force of about Boo men under Lieut.-Colonel Francis Smith and Major John Pitcairn was sent by General Thomas Gage from Boston to destroy military stores collected by the colonists at Concord, and to seize John Hancock and Samuel Adams, then at Parson Clarke's house (now known as the Hancock-Clarke House) in Lexington.