Inge, William Ralph -- “Bishop Gore and the Church of England” (1908), Outspoken Essays, First Series (1919)

Dave — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:36:22 +0000

A love of order, seemliness, and good taste has led the Anglican Church along a middle path between what a seventeenth-century divine called “the meretricious gaudiness of the Church of Rome and the squalid sluttery of fanatic conventicles.”

William Ralph Inge (1860-1954) English prelate [Dean Inge]
“Bishop Gore and the Church of England” (1908), Outspoken Essays, First Series (1919)
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The reference is to "S. P. of Cambridge," believed to be the later Bishop Simon Patrick, who published in 1662 the pamphlet "A Brief Account of the new Sect of Latitude-men," lauding "that virtuous mediocrity which our Church observes between" the alternatives quoted by Inge. Reprinted in John Dunton, The Phenix, Vol. 2, ch. 4 (1707).

Butler, Samuel -- The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 [Pryer] (1903)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:00:00 +0000

The limits of vice and virtue are wretchedly ill-defined. Half the vices that the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 [Pryer] (1903)
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WIST Quotations

Inge, William Ralph -- “Bishop Gore and the Church of England” (1908), Outspoken Essays, First Series (1919)

Butler, Samuel -- The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 [Pryer] (1903)