Clergymen

Sweden certain English clergymen, who laboured there with great success. ❋ John Henry Blunt (N/A)

Catholic Church over which Cæcilianus presides, who give their services to this holy religion, and who are commonly called clergymen, be entirely exempted from all public duties, that by any error or sacrilegious negligence they may not be drawn away from the service due to the Deity, but may devote themselves without any hindrance to their own law. ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

"But, father," Flossy said, speaking somewhat timidly, as she could not help doing when she talked about these matters to her father, "if we call clergymen our spiritual guides, and look up to them to set examples for us to follow, what is the use of the example if we don't follow it at all, but conclude they are simply doing things for their own benefit?" ❋ 1841-1930 Pansy (1885)

A motion to exempt clergymen from the conscription was voted down. ❋ Unknown (1863)

American missionaries, and put themselves under the exclusive instruction of clergymen from the English Church. ❋ Rufus Anderson (1838)

We must bear in mind that the clergymen were the early historians of the country; and they put much gloom in their writings. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is a fact that actors who study the method of voice production do not suffer from that form of sore throat known as clergymen's sore throat, simply because they have learned to produce their voice in this way. ❋ John Kirk (N/A)

Those known as clergymen invariably command respect from everybody, and it would be very easy for them to be always recognizable. ❋ Alfred Brockenbrough Williams (1878)

Lord Stanhope, in his "History of England from the Peace of Utrecht," writes as if the Irish clergymen -- the clergymen, that is, of the Established Church of Ireland -- might have accomplished wonders in the way of converting the Irish peasantry to Protestantism if they only could have preached and controverted in the Irish language. ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)

I could even name clergymen of all denominations who hold ❋ Charles Maurice Davies (1869)

The clergymen were the field chaplains of the Protestant bands. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

There were commonly several elders and deacons connected with every worshipping society, and though these, as well as the bishops, began, towards the close of the second century, to be called clergymen, [578: 5] and were thus taught to cherish the idea that the Lord was their inheritance, it would be quite a mistake to infer that they all subsisted on their official income. ❋ Unknown (1854)

The masters of both were licentiates of the established church, an order having a vague resemblance to that of deacons in the English church; there were at both of them scholars whose fees were paid by the parish, while others at both were preparing for the University; there were many pupils at the second school whose parents took them to the established church on Sundays, and both were yearly examined by the presbytery -- that is, the clergymen of a certain district; while my father was on friendly terms with all the parents, some of whom did not come to his church because they thought the expenses of religion should be met by the offerings of those who prized its ministrations, while others regarded the unity of the nation, and thought that religion, like any other of its necessities, ought to be the care of its chosen government. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

What a great compilation of thoughts from so-called "clergymen". ❋ Unknown (2008)

Are they the kind of clergymen and neighborhood activists that you worked with in Chicago? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It has often been alleged, however, that the lower mortality among abstainers was due solely to a more conservative habit of living, and that this class is largely composed of people in favorable or preferred occupations, such as clergymen and teachers. ❋ Eugene Lyman Fisk (1907)

And, like many of those other inventors, he numbered among his ancestors for generations two types of men -- on the one hand, a line of skilled artisans and mechanics; on the other, the most intellectual men of their time such as clergymen and schoolmasters, one of them being ❋ Holland Thompson (1906)