Pryer, too, was popular in the pulpit, and, take him all round, it was probable that many worse curates would be found for one better.
The title of "Curate-in-charge" as yet was not invented generally; but far more Curates held that position than hold it in these stricter times.
And the shifting of Curates from parish to parish was not so frequent as it is now; theological views having less range and rage, and Curates less divinity.
He paid his curates punctually, at the lowest salary, and partly out of the communion money; but gave them good advice in abundance.
Curates and teachers hovered about the intervening space.
The Sunday school, marshalled by curates and teachers, awaited the party from the vicarage.
Then the gates opened and the vicar and his wife and Miss Merewether, her daughter, and Maisie Shepherd appeared and were immediately greeted by curates and teachers.
As the Dissenters gave the feed, it occurred to the Vicar and his curates to make a house-to-house inspection—to see for themselves the nakedness of the land, and to relieve it accordingly.
Oh, certainly,’ said both thecurates who declared they had never seen more unmitigated poverty anywhere.
Now, when even curates devote themselves to lawn tennis, a freer life is tolerated, and we do not find fault with even an ordained parson who can run, or play cricket, or display animal as well as intellectual or moral vigour.
And certainly great was the number ofcurates and chaplains hearing confessions and administering the Sacraments, and even of parish clerks visiting the sick with them, who died.
Such curates and chaplains as did not please him were most unceremoniously deposed, translated, imprisoned, admonished in letters couched in Russian terms, and dealt with as suited his humour.
Good snuff is acceptable to the curates and to monks (though there are none just now).
About two hundred curates with their families were at once driven out of their houses with every sort of insult and abuse.
Those livings from which the curateshad been rabbled and driven away were declared vacant.
They took the law into their own hands, and on Christmas Day, 1688, a general attack was made on the curates or parish priests in the Western Lowlands.
In some parishes the curates went on ministering as heretofore, while in others the Presbyterian divines held services in tents, or illegally occupied the pulpits.
Likewise, poor beneficed men and curates (not being able to provide themselves long gowns) may go in short gowns of the fashion aforesaid.
But of your great goodness, by your leve, I woulde pray you that ye not you grieve, I will with Thomas speak a little throw; These curates be so negligent and slow To searchen tenderly a conscience.
Satan's) queyntise they comen in, The curates to helpen, But that harmed hem hard And help them ful littel.
The curates then had recourse to a more efficacious way of preserving the faith of the people.
Playing cards and checkers is now the most usual way the majority of curates and vicars have recourse to spend their long and many idle hours, both of the week and Sabbath days.
The week was scarcely ended, when letters came from nearly all the curates and vicars to the bishop, respectfully requesting him to withdraw his name from “The Society of the Three Masses.
But my heart was filled with an unspeakable desolation, for all along the way, the curates had told me that the people, with their old pastor, were unanimous in their opposition to my going there.
I knew that there were many priests who were as anxious to become curates of Beauport as I was opposed to it.
Not long after, I saw that the curates felt ashamed of their vain attempt to intimidate me.
To help the poor, blind priest, the curates around Quebec used to keep him by turn in their parsonages, and give him the care and marks of respect due to his old age.
I then left to go and tell the curates and vicars the happy issue of my interview with the bishop of Montreal.
In the good providence of God, being invited by all the curates to establish temperance societies among their people, I had the sad opportunity, as no priest ever had in Canada, to know the secret and public scandals of each parish.
I had not gone through it all, before I understood why it was kept from the eyes of the curates and other secular priests.
Too true, Dora; and if you were to read the letters I have received from friends on behalf of curates situated as you have described, you would understand the difficulties in which owners of Church livings are placed.
Absences were not uncommon, for we all felt as did Bessie McDougal, who said she "couldna thole sic preaching as thae curates gie us.
Curates were placed in the vacant churches, and a tax was soon imposed on all who did not go to hear them.
Deacon, and was very popular with the High Church party, but his curates were Whigs, and belonged to the Low Church, and had both preached against rebellion.
Just then a female servant ushered in two young divines, both of them assistant curates of St. Ann's--the Rev.
So they set off, leaving the two curates behind, both looking very much disconcerted.
When rustic woman stoops to folly, And finds e'en Curates can betray, What act can aggravate the "dolly" Whose wealth has won his heart away?
Illustration] When rustic woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that Curates flirt; It pains, ah!
As to the curates we shall say nothing beyond this, that one has got a better situation and is going to it, and that the other would like one if he could get it--not that the present is at all bad, only that there are others better.
I think he must be like all the other curates I have seen; and they seem to me a self-seeking, vain, empty race.
The churchyard is on one side of this lane, the school-house and the sexton's dwelling (where the curates formerly lodged) on the other.
These curates were full of strong, High-Church feeling.
Concordat to 'ensure to the bishops and the curates salaries befitting their functions,' and by Article XV.
Then, too, as now, the curates were required to look carefully after the education of the children in their parishes.
Turgot to the end, he carried on an extensive correspondence with curates in Artois as well as in the other provinces of France, as the best means of educating the people to an intelligent appreciation of his purposes and of his plans.
It might not have been safe for the ejected Curates and Professors to give vent in their own country to the anger which they felt.
Subsequently they were excluded from the confraternities, and only admitted to holy orders as vicars, curates to assist parish vicars, chaplains, and in other minor offices.
There is always a plentiful supply of curates in England.
Deans and Canons and Rectors and Vicars and Curates had no place upon it.
A prosperous clergyman might hold half-a-dozen separate preferments, and, as long as he paid curates to perform the irreducible minimum of public duty, he need never show his face inside his deserted parishes.
Spencer Perceval brought in several bills to compel non-resident incumbents to pay their curates a living wage.
Another of the Bishop's ways of defending himself was to boast that, in spite of all his interrogations, he has actually excluded only two curates from his diocese: and this boast supplies the reviewer with one of his best apologues.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
