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Goldsmith’s village preacher, “passing rich with forty pounds a year,”--that is, about two hundred dollars,--was not unlike large numbers of the clergy among us.
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Sumner uses the example of Goldsmith’s village preacher to illustrate the modest means of many clergymen.
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