priestliest

Updated: June 11, 2025

Carlyle has pictured for us his early home at Ecclefechan on the Border; his father, a stone mason of the highest character; his mother with her frugal, pious ways; the minister, from whom he learned Latin, 'the priestliest man I ever beheld in any ecclesiastical guise. The picture of his mother never faded from his memory. Carlyle was destined for the Church. Such had been his mother's prayer.

Edward Caldwell Moore - An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant