Anthony Trollope

Clergymen Of The Church Of England Anthony Trollope

The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He is still a nobleman of the highest rank, -he of Canterbury holding his degree, indeed, above all his peers in Parliament, not of Royal blood, and he of York following his elder brother, with none between them but the temporary occupant of the woolsack. He is still one before whose greatness small clerical aspirants veil their eyes, and whose blessing in the minds of pious maidens has in it something almost divine. He is, {2} as I have said, a peer of Parliament. Above all things, he should be a gentleman, and, -if it were always possible, -a gentleman of birth; but he has no longer anything of the position or of the attributes of a pri