This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...of game. If there is a pure and elevated pleasure in this world, it is that of roast pheasant and bread sauce;--barn door fowls for dissenters, but for the real churchman, the thirty-nine times articled clerk, --the pheasant, the pheasant I " Ever yours, SIDNEY SMITH." A more laconic note, in acknowledgment of a similar arrival, was penned by Mr. Barham himself, but whether it ever reached the hands of the eminent individual to whom it appears to have been addressed, is doubtful: --" Many thanks, my dear Lord, for the birds of your giving, Though I wish, with the dead, you had sent me the living." The living, however, arrived in due time, and fortunately happened to be one contiguous to that he had previously held. Of course the ready welcome h8 met with from his new congregation, and the rapid progress he made in interesting their warmer feelings, was, in a great measure, to be attributed to the fact of his not coming among them-as a stranger. The manner in which he acquitted himself at the delicate juncture brought about by the Bishop of London's well known charge of 18412, which served to place the clergy in so awkward a position, as regarded their Diocesan and the laity, contributed not a little to rivet their esteem. Of his own opinions he made no secret; but he had too strict a regard for constituted authority to offer anything like opposition to his spiritual superior, but at the same time was so deeply impressed with the present inapplicability of the proposed measures, that he applied for and obtained full permission to exercise his own judgment on the subject. It is needless to add, that no untimely recurrence to a set of forms which, however decorous, seem to have become out of date, embroiled him with those committed t...