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" Now, to drop the clerical simile, let us peep within the sheathing spathe, or, better still, strip it off altogether.
For her face was sunny, and fair to look upon; one of the younger clerical dons-now a scanty band, almost a remnant-was reported to have said, after gazing upon that face, that he now understood, which he had never understood before, what Solomon meant when he compared his love's temples to a piece of pomegranate within her locks.
(27) It should be remembered that the clerical immunities which were claimed in this age were by no means confined to those whom we should now call clergymen, but that they also took in that large class of persons who held smaller ecclesiastical offices without being what we should call in holy orders.
” But he by no means claims freedom from mutilation as a mere clerical privilege; he distinctly condemns it in any case.
” But knowledge of the law was not an exclusively clerical accomplishment; for among the grounds for the election of King Harold himself, we find (de Inventione Sanctæ Crucis Walthamensis, p.
There were the clerical and the physical; the huge tie peruke for the man of law, the brigadier and the tremendous fox-ear or cluster of temple curls with a pigtail behind, for the Army and Navy.
That the broad result of the training given in these seminaries is a general increase in clerical efficiency I cannot doubt, but perhaps a layman may be permitted to point out some curious gaps and lapses in that training which go some way towards making clergymen less esteemed, and therefore less influential, than they ought to be.
And beside them, an absolute stranger to them, a stranger even in habits of speech and thought, and at any rate to be shot with them fairly and squarely, marches the sub¬altern-the son of the school-burking, share-holding class-a slightly taller sort of boy, as ill-taught as they are in all that concerns the realities of life, ignorant of how to get food, how to get water, how to keep fever down and strength up, ignorant of his practical equality with the men beside him, carefully trained under a clerical head¬master to use a crib, play cricket rather nicely, look all right whatever happens, believe in his gentility, and avoid talking ""shop.
"" One black ox, with a white cravat on,-who even had to my awakened conscience something of a clerical air,-fixed me so obstinately with his eyes, and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved round, that I blubbered out to him, ""I couldn't help it, sir!
This was the time for Wemmick to produce a little kettle, a tray of glasses, and a black bottle with a porcelain-topped cork, representing some clerical dignitary of a rubicund and social aspect.
There were men, too, of a sturdier texture of mind than his, and endowed with a far greater share of shrewd, hard iron, or granite understanding; which, duly mingled with a fair proportion of doctrinal ingredient, constitutes a highly respectable, efficacious, and unamiable variety of the clerical species.
For years past she had looked from this estranged point of view at human institutions, and whatever priests or legislators had established; criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
It was not so much a better principle, as partly his natural good taste, and still more his buckramed habit of clerical decorum, that carried him safely through the latter crisis.
One of his clerical brethren-it was the venerable John Wilson-observing the state in which Mr.
"" We were busy with Peepy, taking off his clerical hat, asking him if he remembered us, and so on.
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