William Philpot — a remark

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“A Parson’s business is that of a stone-breaker. But there is usually not a stone-breaker in the parish who has such hard work before him.”

Comparing the labour of pastoral ministry to the hardest manual toil · Aphorism, A Pocket of Pebbles

About William Philpot

William Philpot

16 April 1823–16 April 1889

William Philpot was born on 16 April 1823 and died on 16 April 1889, completing a life of exactly sixty-six years. His career belongs to the enormous, uneven, and still incompletely recovered field of nineteenth-century poetry: the work of writers who published in small editions, contributed to local or denominational…

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