8th Earl of Bridgewater

Famous quotes containing the words earl and/or bridgewater:

    “In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod from a haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)