Samuel Wilberforce (1805 – 1873)
English bishop and the son of William Wilberforce.
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A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
He was the first of the Bishops of the Victorian age to show what the duties of a bishop were. He may truly be said to have recast the whole idea of the Episcopate, and to have successfully raised the tone of clerical life.
I do not quite like hearing you, for you make me cry.
Modern liberalism: a heartless steam engine.
Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.
I admired and liked him most before he became a Bishop, and before he leant so much to those High Church views which did harm.
The Bishop was the Holy Terror of his time; he shows up on the wrong side of every dispute.
Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?
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