A. J. B. Beresford Hope,
Letters on church matters
(1851)
“ High Churchmen differ very widely from Lord Ashley and his followers. It is absolutely a mystery to them how honest men with ordinary faculties can read the Prayer Book as the latter do. But as these accept the Prayer Book, the "large party" has never attempted to assail them; and as they find no difficulty in living under the actual Prayer Book, they cannot say that they are hardly used. ”
A. J. B. Beresford Hope,
Letters on church matters
(1851)
“ Qui s'excuse s'accuse. The "recent measures of the Pope" are so easily, viewed political1y, to be confounded with at least the division of Scotland, as to be absolutely and entirely parallel with it, and accordingly Lord John's his- torical knowledge made him uneasy, and led him to blurt out what is, in point of fact, a refutation of his whole letter. ”
A. J. B. Beresford Hope,
Letters on church matters
(1851)
“ The Archdeacons may perform the task of collecting them and embodying them in a form to lay before the Bishop, unless, indeed, they may, in this or that case, find themselves in the position of being at once informants and prosecutors. We have now come back to the point at which we always find ourselves, after all—the great unfairness of constituting a one-sided tribunal for the redress of supposed infractions of the Rubrical law only upon the side which has happened to offend Lord John Russell, Mr. ”
