This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE 81 widely diffused in the captivating language of didactic poetry. 'In all relations of life this truly great man was peculiarly happy. As a husband he was beloved, as a father revered, as a master served with affection; as a patron and benefactor his bounties were felt and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE 81 widely diffused in the captivating language of didactic poetry. 'In all relations of life this truly great man was peculiarly happy. As a husband he was beloved, as a father revered, as a master served with affection; as a patron and benefactor his bounties were felt and gratefully acknowledged. His domestic establishment was princely but unostentatious, and his hospitality unbounded. 'By his generous and assisting hand the churches of York, Southwell, and Eipon were repaired, ornamented, and beautified. In the exercise of his ecclesiastical power his ear was open to fair and candid representation. Thus, through an extensive diocese his clergy looked up to him with respect and deference, and all listened to him with love and admiration V Mr. Ward, in Trernaine, wrote: 'Dr. Markham, the late Archbishop of York, so venerable, so learned, so liberal, so kind. It is difficult to name the memory that is so much and so fondly cherished by the friends, young and old, who survive him V 'The great features in the character of this distinguished prelate, ' says Charles Phillimore, 'seem to have been strict honesty, and a high sense of honour, joined with modesty and simplicity.' The letters of his daughter-in-law Maria3, who came 1 Globe, Nov. 8, 1807, copied in the Annual Register, xlix, p. 789. In 1787 the Archbishop published some discourses on the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 2 Trernaine, or the Man of Refinement, 3 vols. (1825), i. 109 (n.). 3 The Hon. Mrs. John Markham, sister of Lord Dynevor. MARKHAH G 82 IMPRESSIONS OF HIS DAUGHTEK-IN-LAW into the family in 1796, show the love and veneration felt by those who were near and dear to the Archbishop. After a conversation with her father-in-law in 1798, she wrote: .
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