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" Another fine variety of the common wild blackberry, which was discovered by a clergyman at the edge of the woods on the Kittatinny Mountains in New Jersey, has produced fruit under skilled cultivation that still remains the best of its class.
Fortunately for them, her brother was a man of property in a small, old-fashioned town near the coast of Kent; and, having considerable influence in the place, he offered, through the clergyman of the parish, the vacant post of organist in the parish church to David Willis, after first roundly abusing his sister for having married a pauper.
However, a clergyman must not be dictated to, and I tell father he should go his own way and preach his own sermons.
Even the day is appointed, and nothing is going to happen which will prevent the blessed [Pg 426]wedding-bells from ringing, or the clergyman from the sacred joining together of man and of maid, till death do part them.
As to the morality acquired at Public Schools, a clergyman who was successively an Eton boy and an Eton master wrote twenty-five years ago: ""The masters of many schools are sitting on a volcano, which, when it explodes, will fill with horror and alarm those who do not know what boys' schools are, or knowing it, shut their eyes and stop their ears.
"" And now the ""ten-minutes"" bell begins with livelier measure; the Oldest[142] Inhabitant shows me to a seat; and, on the stroke of eleven, a shrill ""Amen"" is heard in the vestry, and there enters a modest procession of surpliced schoolboys and a clergyman in a green stole.
The ""service is fully choral,"" as they say in accounts of fashionable weddings; the clergyman preaches against the Education Bill, and a collection (of copper) is made to defray the expenses of a meeting at the Albert Hall.
"" An enthusiastic clergyman who wore the Blue Ribbon had been urging on Archbishop Benson his own strong convictions about the wickedness of wine-drinking.
An ingenious clergyman who shared Dean Lefroy's and Mr.
Luke in ""The New Republic,"" who, after talking about ""liberal air,"" ""sedged brooks,"" and ""meadow grass,"" admitted that it would be a horrid bore[345] to have no other society than the clergyman of the parish, and no other topics of conversation than Justification by Faith and the measles.
John's ""senile iterations and contorted metaphysics""; but, when a clergyman read St.
Bishop Wilberforce, in his diary, tells of a greedy clergyman who, when asked to say grace at a dinner-party, used to vary the form according to the character of the wine-glasses which he saw before him on the table.
I have known a mesmeric clergyman who cozened the women of his congregation out of money, character, and in some cases reason.
[388] LIII THE REMNANT Some recent observations of mine on the deterioration of society have drawn this interesting response from an eminent clergyman in the north of London:- ""Is it possible that in 'Society' itself there is a point of resistance which may be touched by an effective appeal coming from the wholesomer elements in English life?
and Comyns Carr, Two dukes and a dramatic star, Also a clergyman now dead; And while the vain world careless sped Unheeding the heroic name- The souls most fed with Shakespeare's flame Still sat unconquered in a ring, Remembering him like anything.
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