It is not then in the glare of public , but in the shade of private life , that we are to look for the man.
Private life is always real life.
II Parson Weems never tried to have it both ways. Like Morris, he may have invented his sources. Unlike Morris, however, Weems knew that his life of Washington would not satisfy critics of a literary bent. He was ordained by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1784, just when many patriots in the newly independent United States came to shun Anglican ministers. Weems returned to serve as a rector in several churches in Maryland.