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  • His special targets were Baby Kochamma's guests—Catholic bishops or visiting clergy—who often dropped by for a snack.†   (source)
  • Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy.†   (source)
  • Simon is a little surprised: surely it is the duty of the clergy to encourage pious eyewash.†   (source)
  • Drunk on Mourning and just recently a thief, I guessed the less contact I had with the clergy the better off I'd be.†   (source)
  • You haven't mentioned the clergy, either.†   (source)
  • Padre de Jesus and Brother Daniel had been down in the capital throughout July conferring with other clergy.†   (source)
  • Maycomb's regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks' honoraria.†   (source)
  • Has a damn'd Tyburn-face, without the benefit of the clergy.†   (source)
  • The funeral directors were not merely men selling a commodity; other than clergy, they were the ones most intimately in touch with the townspeople in their times of sorrow and need.†   (source)
  • I just don't know what's happening to the clergy these days.†   (source)
  • To quote our good friends, the Clergy.†   (source)
  • Having a priest say this was a stroke of genius on Maggie's part— who wouldn't believe a member of the clergy when it came to religion?†   (source)
  • Cesar was surprised to hear a member of the clergy saying such things.†   (source)
  • The clergy and such celebrated observers of the era as Jonathan Swift and Tobias Smollett had long since made it a favorite subject.†   (source)
  • I could not think why it should he so, for he came, as I gathered, from a family of clergy and had but recently been at his books in Cambridge.†   (source)
  • Under NCAA rules I couldn't play there, but I was allowed to play at Timuquana Country Club, where my dad is a clergy member.†   (source)
  • Duc is an ordained member of the Buddhist clergy, a monastic who lives a meditative life of poverty.†   (source)
  • Many of their leaders were in fact members of the Protestant clergy who believed that enslaving fellow human beings was a sin and an abomination unto the Lord.†   (source)
  • Ten percent off to unmarried young ladies, And special discounts to the clergy and their daughters.†   (source)
  • Among the lodgers were some of the clergy and two artels, or associations, of street hawkersone of butchers, the other of greengrocers-but most of them were workers on the Moscow-Brest railway.†   (source)
  • Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy, fellow citizens, we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom -- symbolizing an end, as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal, as well as change.†   (source)
  • Collected from the clergy high and low!†   (source)
  • They believe the responsibility should be shared by clergy and laity.
    clergy = formal religious leaders
  • The clergy vigilantly refilled the lamps with sacred oils such that no lamp ever burned out.†   (source)
  • Langdon recognized it as the standard porta sacra-a private entrance for clergy.†   (source)
  • In the 1600s the clergy were some of the most educated men in the world.†   (source)
  • Some were asked to speak on the relevance of the professional clergy to the religious vocation.†   (source)
  • Them two living under the same roof, without benefit of clergy.†   (source)
  • "I have to admit," Fletcher said, "I don't get very many calls from the Catholic clergy.†   (source)
  • "Nothing appeared rich but the churches, nobody fat but the clergy," he noted sadly.†   (source)
  • Langdon saw no Masonic ring on the dean's finger, and yet he knew many Masons, especially those within the clergy, chose not to advertise their affiliation.†   (source)
  • Someone in the clergy.†   (source)
  • The College of Preachers, as it was originally envisioned by the first Episcopal bishop of Washington, was founded to provide ongoing education for clergy after their ordination.†   (source)
  • Nonetheless, he is correct about the modern clergy believing these opposing documents are false testimony.†   (source)
  • Colenso was the object of acrimonious debate wherever the clergy gathered, and Stanley once made a ringing Convocation speech in his defense, asking that body was it aware that Colenso was the only colonial bishop who had bothered to translate the Bible into Zulu, which was rather more than the rest had done.†   (source)
  • Despite appeals from the NAACP and black clergy, who asked that the sentence be converted to life imprisonment, Governor Olin Johnston refused to intervene and George was sent to Columbia to be executed in South Carolina's electric chair.†   (source)
  • The opposition to authority was not least directed against the power of the clergy, the king, and the nobility.†   (source)
  • Why would members of the Catholic clergy murder Priory members in an effort to find and destroy documents they believe are false testimony anyway?†   (source)
  • Malleus Maleficarum—or The Witches' Hammer—indoctrinated the world to "the dangers of freethinking women" and instructed the clergy how to locate, torture, and destroy them.†   (source)
  • I suppose Galileo could have created some sort of mathematical code that went unnoticed by the clergy.†   (source)
  • Not a fan of the current papal administration, Aringarosa, like most conservative clergy, had watched with grave concern as the new Pope settled into his first year in office.†   (source)
  • According to accounts from the select few clergy who had descended over the years, the Necropolis was a dark maze of subterranean crypts that could swallow a visitor whole if he lost his way.†   (source)
  • Yes, the clergy in Rome are blessed with potent faith, and because of this, their beliefs can weather any storm, including documents that contradict everything they hold dear.†   (source)
  • The clergy felt, and perhaps rightly so, that the last thing Christians needed to know was that there was a very powerful anti-Christian movement infiltrating their banks, politics, and universities.†   (source)
  • The clergy were frightened.†   (source)
  • Not even …. the clergy.†   (source)
  • The clergy has gone.†   (source)
  • He had appealed to the clergy to recognize slavery as a sin, and urged all legislators, "ye advocates for American liberty," to work for the liberty of blacks as well.†   (source)
  • Amanda Levick and Lara Warner, whose help was invaluable; and Philip Benedict, for insight into the minds and libraries of seventeenth-century clergy.†   (source)
  • Tappan and Jocelyn used a network of abolitionist sympathizers and clergy to identify the best places for the Africans to appear.†   (source)
  • A rough estimate put the number at more than one thousand people-men, women, and children, elite members of local society, farmers from the outlying communities, merchants, sailors, clergy, journalists from across the nation, and others.†   (source)
  • When you have a belief system that says you shouldn't listen to the clergy, and that you should continually ask questions, instead of accepting doctrine, it's hard to form a community.†   (source)
  • Not long after his protest, a law passed saying that dissenting clergy should keep at least five miles from their old parishes, so that they might not stir up differences.†   (source)
  • I saw such a spirit of dogmatism and bigotry in clergy and laity, that if I should be a priest I must take my side, and pronounce as positively as any of them, or never get a parish, or getting it must soon leave it.†   (source)
  • But then the adoration of Franklin to be found in all quarters was extraordinary, as Adams would later recount: His name was familiar to government and people, to kings, courtiers, nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely a peasant or citizen, a valet de chambre, coachman or footman, a lady's chambermaid or a scullion in a kitchen, who was not familiar with it, and who did not consider him as a friend of humankind.†   (source)
  • It was all Grabeau could do to keep everyone calm, especially the children, who kept breaking into tears at the sight of black-frocked clergy members, who they were sure were executioners of some sort.†   (source)
  • She was a theosophist, but she was also an expert on the ritual of the Orthodox Church, and even when she was toute transports, in a state of utter ecstasy, could not refrain from prompting the officiating clergy.†   (source)
  • Caleb and the clergy left the hospital ship at six the next morning, the sky leaden, the breeze cool.†   (source)
  • That night the combined clergy prepared dinner in the new vicarage kitchen, and Mark told Caleb about the four boys who were going out to school.†   (source)
  • Two of the clergy stayed with Mark in the new vicarage, sleeping on the sofa, the big bed in the spare bedroom reserved, of course, for the Bishop, and the remaining four of the visitors were lodged in the homes of the Indians.†   (source)
  • The Bishop would surely come more frequently, perhaps even with a boatload of landlubber clergy to be fed and housed, and the young wives would gather here in her house to defer to her judgment, speaking softly in Kwakwala.†   (source)
  • The landlubber clergy tried desperately to find a comfortable way to perch on the one-by-four crosspieces that formed the seats, the water gurgling ominously, Jim's torch seeking the log jams and the snags.†   (source)
  • They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.†   (source)
  • Celibacy may be all very well for the French clergy, but not for ours.†   (source)
  • He had a sort of contempt for the lower clergy, and right up to the last he was explaining his rank.†   (source)
  • It hadn't been necessary: none of the busy cathedral clergy even knew what he was called.†   (source)
  • Now that the King and you are in amity, Clergy and laity may return to gaiety, Mirth and —sportfulness need not walk warily, Thomas.†   (source)
  • The twenty-fourth of March was known as the Day of Blood: the high priest drew blood from his arms, which he presented as an offering; the lesser clergy whirled in a dervish-dance, to the sound of drums, horns, flutes, and cymbals, until, rapt in ecstasy, they gashed their bodies with knives to bespatter the altar and tree with their blood; and the novices, in imitation of the god whose death and resurrection they were celebrating, castrated themselves and swooned.†   (source)
  • We charged in cheerfully, relieved the policeman, and were just falling upon the main body of the enemy when we came into collision with a party of local clergy and town councilors who arrived simultaneously by another route to try persuasion.†   (source)
  • I saw him pray to God at the edge of the Red Sea, and I saw the Red Sea parted to give free passage, a deep road between piled-up mountains of water (the confirmation classes conducted by the clergy to see this religious film could argue without end as to how the film people managed this).†   (source)
  • He was feeling a new heresy coming over him, possibly as a result of the spirits, and it had something to do with the celibacy of the clergy.†   (source)
  • The old man had come through the Terror, had been trained in the austerity of those days of the persecution of the clergy, and he was not untouched by Jansenism.†   (source)
  • Compare the motif of the fire sticks discussed above. reading of the prophecies, the priest puts on a purple cope and, preceded by the processional cross, the candelabra, and the lighted blessed candle, goes to the baptismal font with his ministers and the clergy, while the following tract is sung: "As the hart panteth after the fountains of water, so my soul panteth after Thee, 0 God! when shall I come and appear before the face of God?†   (source)
  • His successor, the second Archbishop, was also an Auvergnat, from Father Latour's own college, and the clergy of northern New Mexico remained predominantly French.†   (source)
  • There had been a conference once of the parochial clergy in the capital, in the happy days of the old governor, and he could remember Padre Jose slinking in at the tail of every meeting, curled up half out of sight in a back row, never opening his mouth.†   (source)
  • Father Latour had had polite correspondence with Martínez, but had met him only once, on that memorable occasion when the Padre had ridden up from Taos to strengthen the Santa Fé clergy in their refusal to recognize the new Bishop.†   (source)
  • Quite true, at least in regard to a given people's relation to their clergy.†   (source)
  • This criminal ended at last by denouncing himself to the clergy, and giving himself up to justice.†   (source)
  • The church is not the stone building nor even the clergy and their dogmas.†   (source)
  • But with the clergy Martin was brief, and his drinking and poker he never concealed.†   (source)
  • Philip knew what sort of lives the clergy led in the corner of East Anglia which was his home.†   (source)
  • The neighbouring clergy sent their sons there.†   (source)
  • "I am a clergyman," he said; "and the clergy are often appealed to about odd matters."†   (source)
  • I'd inform if he were my own son: and it's felony without benefit of clergy!'†   (source)
  • The French Government pays the clergy; in America the voluntary principle prevails.†   (source)
  • I knew the clergy's taste, the dandy gent's taste; I knew the town's taste, the country's taste.†   (source)
  • I showed in my former volumes how the American clergy stand aloof from secular affairs.†   (source)
  • The clergy resumed the services in many churches that had not been burned.†   (source)
  • Plenty of beneficed clergy are poorer than they will be.†   (source)
  • The American clergy were the first to perceive this truth, and to act in conformity with it.†   (source)
  • With these exceptions, and the press and the clergy, the free list is strictly suspended.†   (source)
  • Another remark is applicable to the clergy of every communion.†   (source)
  • And he added "Only the absence of the clergy was remarked.†   (source)
  • The Rev. Walter Stelling was not a man who would remain among the "inferior clergy" all his life.†   (source)
  • The clergy are lost there in the crowds of their parishioners.†   (source)
  • Almost all education is entrusted to the clergy.†   (source)
  • It is impossible that your own observation can have given you much knowledge of the clergy.†   (source)
  • From many descriptions of larceny the law expressly took away the benefit of clergy: to steal a horse, or a HAWK, or woollen cloth from the weaver, was a hanging matter.†   (source)
  • He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy.†   (source)
  • Often she deplored the bourgeois quality of the American Catholic clergy, and was quite sure that had she lived in the shadow of the great Continental cathedrals her soul would still be a thin flame on the mighty altar of Rome.†   (source)
  • She regarded it as her future home, and was anxious to start straight with the clergy, etc., and, if possible, to see something of the local life.†   (source)
  • Apart from her being what she is, of course, a luxury for a fogy like me, it will set me right in the eyes of the clergy and orthodox laity, who have never forgiven me for letting her go.†   (source)
  • …improbable that—barring an outbreak of fire—Francoise would go down and disturb Mamma when M. Swann was there for so unimportant a person as myself was one embodying the respect she shewed not only for the family (as for the dead, for the clergy, or for royalty), but also for the stranger within our gates; a respect which I should perhaps have found touching in a book, but which never failed to irritate me on her lips, because of the solemn and gentle tones in which she would utter…†   (source)
  • They are so big that there's room for all kinds, and it turns out that Lady Cressida is the moral one—married a clergy-man and does missionary work in the East End.†   (source)
  • Durbeyfield began, and thereupon related in detail to his wife a discussion which had arisen at the inn about the clergy, originated by the fact of his daughter having married into a clerical family.†   (source)
  • A desolating pity began to fall like dew upon his easily embittered heart for this faithful serving-man of the knightly Loyola, for this half-brother of the clergy, more venal than they in speech, more steadfast of soul than they, one whom he would never call his ghostly father; and he thought how this man and his companions had earned the name of worldlings at the hands not of the unworldly only but of the worldly also for having pleaded, during all their history, at the bar of God's…†   (source)
  • It was the theory of Crynssen County that it was quite all right for a young professional man to take a timely drink providing he kept it secret and made up for it by yearning over the clergy of the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • It is a terrible idea, but it is historic, it is statistic; it is indeed one of those facts which enables an intelligent historian to reconstruct the physiognomy of a special epoch, for it brings out this further point with mathematical accuracy, that the clergy were in those days sixty times richer and more flourishing than the rest of humanity and perhaps sixty times fatter also….†   (source)
  • There is something devilishly earnest about it all, something 'ascetic,' if you will—that was, I believe, the term you were kind enough to use just now—and one must always reckon that one will have to deal with death, just as, ultimately, the clergy must deal with it as well—with what else, really?†   (source)
  • It is true that my neighbour Chant's daughter had lately caught up the fashion of the younger clergy round about us for decorating the Communion-table—altar, as I was shocked to hear her call it one day—with flowers and other stuff on festival occasions.†   (source)
  • "By advantage taken of one in fault, in dire peril, and at thy mercy, thou hast seized goods worth above thirteenpence ha'penny, paying but a trifle for the same; and this, in the eye of the law, is constructive barratry, misprision of treason, malfeasance in office, ad hominem expurgatis in statu quo—and the penalty is death by the halter, without ransom, commutation, or benefit of clergy."†   (source)
  • —old Mr Clare; one of the most earnest of his school; one of the few intense men left in the Church; not so intense as the extreme wing of Christian believers with which I have thrown in my lot, but quite an exception among the Established clergy, the younger of whom are gradually attenuating the true doctrines by their sophistries, till they are but the shadow of what they were.†   (source)
  • They were sons of the local clergy, of the officers at the Depot, and of such manufacturers or men of business as the old town possessed.†   (source)
  • They were generally dressed in black, for in Philip's early years at Blackstable homespuns had not reached East Anglia, and the ladies of the clergy did not favour colours.†   (source)
  • Two or three curates who had hoped for preferment told their wives it was scandalous to give a parish that needed a young, strong, and energetic man to an old fellow who knew nothing of parochial work, and had feathered his nest already; but the mutterings of the unbeneficed clergy do not reach the ears of a cathedral Chapter.†   (source)
  • The school was small as public schools go, there were not more than two hundred boarders; and it was difficult for it to grow larger, for it was huddled up against the Cathedral; the precincts, with the exception of a house in which some of the masters lodged, were occupied by the cathedral clergy; and there was no more room for building.†   (source)
  • Yet so loose were the ideas of the times respecting the conduct of the clergy, whether secular or regular, that the Prior Aymer maintained a fair character in the neighbourhood of his abbey.†   (source)
  • The Christian reader, if he have had no accounts of the city later than Bunyan's time, will be surprised to hear that almost every street has its church, and that the reverend clergy are nowhere held in higher respect than at Vanity Fair.†   (source)
  • …a privilege that I in my own time have known the boldest people afraid to speak of in a whisper, across the water there; for instance, the privilege of filling up blank forms for the consignment of any one to the oblivion of a prison for any length of time; if his wife had implored the king, the queen, the court, the clergy, for any tidings of him, and all quite in vain;—then the history of your father would have been the history of this unfortunate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.†   (source)
  • —because folks forget to take your physic, eh?" said the Squire, who regarded physic and doctors as many loyal churchmen regard the church and the clergy—tasting a joke against them when he was in health, but impatiently eager for their aid when anything was the matter with him.†   (source)
  • "Ay, that's true," said Mr. Tulliver, almost convinced now that the clergy must be the best of schoolmasters.†   (source)
  • After all, on the gallery as well as on the marble table, the spectacle was the same: the conflict of Labor and Clergy, of Nobility and Merchandise.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the officiating clergy had got into their vestments, and the priest and deacon came out to the lectern, which stood in the forepart of the church.†   (source)
  • M. the Prior and Vicar-General of Saint-Germain des Pres ordered a solemn procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated.†   (source)
  • O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors.†   (source)
  • I have heard it said that the clergy—who are always, more universally than any other class, the scholars of their day—are addressed as women; that the rough, spontaneous conversation of men they do not hear, but only a mincing[41] and diluted speech.†   (source)
  • His whole family, of course, was transported to Queen's Crawley, whither Lady Southdown, of course, came too; and she set about converting the parish under the Rector's nose, and brought down her irregular clergy to the dismay of the angry Mrs Bute.†   (source)
  • Going into the cottage where the clergy were assembled and the visitors had arrived, including Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was to stand god-father, he suddenly announced that the baby "ought not to be christened at all."†   (source)
  • Everyone stood up respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family.†   (source)
  • Mr. Roe, the "travelling preacher" stationed at Treddleston, had included Mr. Irwine in a general statement concerning the Church clergy in the surrounding district, whom he described as men given up to the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life; hunting and shooting, and adorning their own houses; asking what shall we eat, and what shall we drink, and wherewithal shall we be clothed?†   (source)
  • The king sat under a canopy of state; about him were clustered a large body of the clergy in full canonicals.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tucker was the middle-aged curate, one of the "inferior clergy," who are usually not wanting in sons.†   (source)
  • …I have the highest opinion in the world in your excellent judgement in all matters within the scope of your understanding; but permit me to say, that there must be a wide difference between the established forms of ceremony amongst the laity, and those which regulate the clergy; for, give me leave to observe that I consider the clerical office as equal in point of dignity with the highest rank in the kingdom—provided that a proper humility of behaviour is at the same time maintained.†   (source)
  • Patronized by the clergy, because she belonged to an ancient family of noblemen ruined by the Revolution, she dined in the refectory at the table of the good sisters, and after the meal had a bit of chat with them before going back to her work.†   (source)
  • I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abominable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy.†   (source)
  • It is not there that respectable people of any denomination can do most good; and it certainly is not there that the influence of the clergy can be most felt.†   (source)
  • This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.†   (source)
  • At other times the housekeeper was the mistress of the magnificent mansion—had four covers daily for her table; was visited by the clergy and the most respectable people of the county—was the lady of Gauntly, in fact; and the two last housekeepers before Mrs. Pilkington had married rectors of Gauntly—but Mrs. P. could not, being the aunt of the present Rector.†   (source)
  • It wouldn't take me much trouble to persuade Chad Cranage and half a dozen other bull-headed fellows that they would be doing an acceptable service to the Church by hunting Will Maskery out of the village with rope-ends and pitchforks; and then, when I had furnished them with half a sovereign to get gloriously drunk after their exertions, I should have put the climax to as pretty a farce as any of my brother clergy have set going in their parishes for the last thirty years."†   (source)
  • He believed neither in God nor the devil, but was much concerned about the question of the improvement of the clergy and the maintenance of their revenues, and took special trouble to keep up the church in his village.†   (source)
  • But I may as well say—en passant, as the French remark—that I myself—that is to say, Jack Bunger, late of the reverend clergy—am a strict total abstinence man; I never drink—†   (source)
  • It is true that the clergy did not like to have them empty, since that implied lukewarmness in believers, and that lepers were put into them when there were no penitents on hand.†   (source)
  • You said, according to him, that he would be one of those ridiculous clergymen who help to make the whole clergy ridiculous.†   (source)
  • "Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.†   (source)
  • Thereupon a eulogy of the marvellous fish, with a thousand delicate allusions to the young betrothed of Marguerite of Flanders, then sadly cloistered in at Amboise, and without a suspicion that Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise had just made the circuit of the world in his behalf.†   (source)
  • At her own home, both at Southdown and at Trottermore Castle, this tall and awful missionary of the truth rode about the country in her barouche with outriders, launched packets of tracts among the cottagers and tenants, and would order Gaffer Jones to be converted, as she would order Goody Hicks to take a James's powder, without appeal, resistance, or benefit of clergy.†   (source)
  • "Oh, my dear Tulliver," said Mr. Riley, "you're quite under a mistake about the clergy; all the best schoolmasters are of the clergy.†   (source)
  • He made, however, a last vigorous attack on Athelstane, and he found that resuscitated sprout of Saxon royalty engaged, like country squires of our own day, in a furious war with the clergy.†   (source)
  • In the Middle Ages the clergy spoke of nothing but a future state; they hardly cared to prove that a sincere Christian may be a happy man here below.†   (source)
  • And to Lady Southdown's dismay too he became more orthodox in his tendencies every day; gave up preaching in public and attending meeting-houses; went stoutly to church; called on the Bishop and all the Clergy at Winchester; and made no objection when the Venerable Archdeacon Trumper asked for a game of whist.†   (source)
  • So they were roaming about the world seeking and searching for this beauty, and, after having successively rejected the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizonde, the daughter of the Grand Khan of Tartary, etc., Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise, had come to rest upon the marble table of the Palais de Justice, and to utter, in the presence of the honest audience, as many sentences and maxims as could then be dispensed at the Faculty of Arts, at examinations, sophisms,…†   (source)
  • Some talked about the Moscow militia which, preceded by the clergy, would go to the Three Hills; others whispered that Augustin had been forbidden to leave, that traitors had been seized, that the peasants were rioting and robbing people on their way from Moscow, and so on.†   (source)
  • However, since Miss Brooke had become engaged in a conversation with Mr. Casaubon about the Vaudois clergy, Sir James betook himself to Celia, and talked to her about her sister; spoke of a house in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London.†   (source)
  • Such and so licentious were the times, as announced by the public declaration of the assembled clergy, recorded by Eadmer; and we need add nothing more to vindicate the probability of the scenes which we have detailed, and are about to detail, upon the more apocryphal authority of the Wardour MS.†   (source)
  • All the American clergy know and respect the intellectual supremacy exercised by the majority; they never sustain any but necessary conflicts with it.†   (source)
  • The Catholic clergy of the United States has never attempted to oppose this political tendency, but it seeks rather to justify its results.†   (source)
  • All this, you remember, happened in those dark ages when there were no schools of design; before schoolmasters were invariably men of scrupulous integrity, and before the clergy were all men of enlarged minds and varied culture.†   (source)
  • She was afraid she had used some strong, some contemptuous expressions in speaking of the clergy, and that should not have been.†   (source)
  • Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest—house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants—streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart.†   (source)
  • I am so much alive to the almost inevitable dangers which beset religious belief whenever the clergy take part in public affairs, and I am so convinced that Christianity must be maintained at any cost in the bosom of modern democracies, that I had rather shut up the priesthood within the sanctuary than allow them to step beyond it.†   (source)
  • This led me to examine more attentively than I had hitherto done, the station which the American clergy occupy in political society.†   (source)
  • As an observer of human nature, I regularly frequent St. George's, Hanover Square, during the genteel marriage season; and though I have never seen the bridegroom's male friends give way to tears, or the beadles and officiating clergy any way affected, yet it is not at all uncommon to see women who are not in the least concerned in the operations going on—old ladies who are long past marrying, stout middle-aged females with plenty of sons and daughters, let alone pretty young creatures…†   (source)
  • With some endowment of stupidity and conceit, she might have thought that a Christian young lady of fortune should find her ideal of life in village charities, patronage of the humbler clergy, the perusal of "Female Scripture Characters," unfolding the private experience of Sara under the Old Dispensation, and Dorcas under the New, and the care of her soul over her embroidery in her own boudoir—with a background of prospective marriage to a man who, if less strict than herself, as…†   (source)
  • The assembled clergy admitted the validity of the plea, and the notoriety of the circumstances upon which it was founded; giving thus an indubitable and most remarkable testimony to the existence of that disgraceful license by which that age was stained.†   (source)
  • …carried in his right hand a sword; the second, two golden keys; the third, a pair of scales; the fourth, a spade: and, in order to aid sluggish minds which would not have seen clearly through the transparency of these attributes, there was to be read, in large, black letters, on the hem of the robe of brocade, MY NAME IS NOBILITY; on the hem of the silken robe, MY NAME IS CLERGY; on the hem of the woolen robe, MY NAME IS MERCHANDISE; on the hem of the linen robe, MY NAME IS LABOR.†   (source)
  • The manners I speak of might rather be called conduct, perhaps, the result of good principles; the effect, in short, of those doctrines which it is their duty to teach and recommend; and it will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.†   (source)
  • But then good society has its claret and its velvet carpets, its dinner-engagements six weeks deep, its opera and its faery ball-rooms; rides off its ennui on thoroughbred horses; lounges at the club; has to keep clear of crinoline vortices; gets its science done by Faraday, and its religion by the superior clergy who are to be met in the best houses,—how should it have time or need for belief and emphasis?†   (source)
  • …assured, was so excellent a scheme that some of the richest people did not disdain it; and not only great men's relations, but great men themselves, sent their sons to profit by the chance—Right Rev. prelates sent their own kinsmen or the sons of their clergy, while, on the other hand, some great noblemen did not disdain to patronize the children of their confidential servants—so that a lad entering this establishment had every variety of youthful society wherewith to mingle.†   (source)
  • Much ill-will would also have been required, not to comprehend, through the medium of the poetry of the prologue, that Labor was wedded to Merchandise, and Clergy to Nobility, and that the two happy couples possessed in common a magnificent golden dolphin, which they desired to adjudge to the fairest only.†   (source)
  • "What they may believe, I know not," said Malvoisin, calmly; "but I know well, that in this our day, clergy and laymen, take ninety-nine to the hundred, will cry 'amen' to the Grand Master's sentence."†   (source)
  • Not that rulers are over-jealous of the right of settling points of doctrine, but they get more and more hold upon the will of those by whom doctrines are expounded; they deprive the clergy of their property, and pay them by salaries; they divert to their own use the influence of the priesthood, they make them their own ministers—often their own servants—and by this alliance with religion they reach the inner depths of the soul of man.†   (source)
  • I do not hesitate to affirm that during my stay in America I did not meet with a single individual, of the clergy or of the laity, who was not of the same opinion upon this point.†   (source)
  • The Spaniards, through the Catholic clergy, offer praise to God for their victory over the French on the fourteenth of June, and the French, also through the Catholic clergy, offer praise because on that same fourteenth of June they defeated the Spaniards.†   (source)
  • Belleforet, Father Le Juge, and Corrozet affirm that it was picked up on the morrow, with great pomp, by the clergy of the quarter, and borne to the treasury of the church of Saint Opportune, where the sacristan, even as late as 1789, earned a tolerably handsome revenue out of the great miracle of the Statue of the Virgin at the corner of the Rue Mauconseil, which had, by its mere presence, on the memorable night between the sixth and seventh of January, 1482, exorcised the defunct…†   (source)
  • The clergy of all the different sects hold the same language, their opinions are consonant to the laws, and the human intellect flows onwards in one sole current.†   (source)
  • In the theatres, gold cannot procure a seat for the servile race beside their former masters; in the hospitals they lie apart; and although they are allowed to invoke the same Divinity as the whites, it must be at a different altar, and in their own churches, with their own clergy.†   (source)
  • I have remarked that the members of the American clergy in general, without even excepting those who do not admit religious liberty, are all in favor of civil freedom; but they do not support any particular political system.†   (source)
  • And when I came to inquire into the prevailing spirit of the clergy I found that most of its members seemed to retire of their own accord from the exercise of power, and that they made it the pride of their profession to abstain from politics.†   (source)
  • In order to satisfy it I questioned the members of all the different sects; and I more especially sought the society of the clergy, who are the depositaries of the different persuasions, and who are more especially interested in their duration.†   (source)
  • Soon, however, the political power of the clergy was founded, and began to exert itself: the clergy opened its ranks to all classes, to the poor and the rich, the villein and the lord; equality penetrated into the Government through the Church, and the being who as a serf must have vegetated in perpetual bondage took his place as a priest in the midst of nobles, and not infrequently above the heads of kings.†   (source)
  • Principal Causes Which Render Religion Powerful In America Care taken by the Americans to separate the Church from the State—The laws, public opinion, and even the exertions of the clergy concur to promote this end—Influence of religion upon the mind in the United States attributable to this cause—Reason of this—What is the natural state of men with regard to religion at the present time—What are the peculiar and incidental causes which prevent men, in certain countries, from arriving…†   (source)
  • The unbelievers of Europe attack the Christians as their political opponents, rather than as their religious adversaries; they hate the Christian religion as the opinion of a party, much more than as an error of belief; and they reject the clergy less because they are the representatives of the Divinity than because they are the allies of authority.†   (source)
  • While I liv'd in Boston most of my hours of leisure for conversation were spent with him, and he continu'd a sober as well as an industrious lad; was much respected for his learning by several of the clergy and other gentlemen, and seemed to promise making a good figure in life.†   (source)
  • He was at first permitted to preach in some of our churches; but the clergy, taking a dislike to him, soon refus'd him their pulpits, and he was oblig'd to preach in the fields.†   (source)
  • Those, however, of our congregation, who considered themselves as orthodox Presbyterians, disapprov'd his doctrine, and were join'd by most of the old clergy, who arraign'd him of heterodoxy before the synod, in order to have him silenc'd.†   (source)
  • This gave the clergy of the different sects an opportunity of influencing their congregations to join in the association, and it would probably have been general among all but Quakers if the peace had not soon interven'd.†   (source)
  • The piece, being universally approved, was copied in all the newspapers of the Continent; reprinted in Britain on a broad side, to be stuck up in houses; two translations were made of it in French, and great numbers bought by the clergy and gentry, to distribute gratis among their poor parishioners and tenants.†   (source)
  • [85] Today, extinct, it is mourned by English purists, and the Poet Laureate denounces the clergy of the Established Church for saying "the /sawed/ of the /Laud/" instead of "the sword of the Lord.†   (source)
  • Amongst the clergy present were the very rev. William Delany, S. J., L. L. D.; the rt rev. Gerald Molloy, D. D.; the rev. P. J. Kavanagh, C. S. Sp.†   (source)
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