And to the end that there be no interest at all, whereby the divines or teachers of the national religion may be corrupted, or corrupt religion, they shall be capable of no other kind of employment or preferment in this commonwealth.
Most of my younger life I was accused of ulterior motives of political ambition, whereas I had seen too much of preferment not to abhor it.
The Abbot renounced his preferment on the plea of family matters, requiring his presence in his native city, and, faithful to this domestic duty, declined an offer from Cardinal d'Este of a situation in his household.
Swift accepted (1713) the deanery of St. Patrick, the bestpreferment that his friends could venture to give him.
What the injury was he did not explain, nor did Gay ever know; but supposed that some preferment designed for him had, by Addison's intervention, been withheld.
But the infirmities of Temple made a companion like Swift so necessary, that he invited him back, with a promise to procure him English preferment in exchange for the prebend, which he desired him to resign.
No Irishman could be admitted to church preferment or to a monastery in the Pale.
He has exactly the same chances of preferment as the most orthodox Christian.
Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of the cathedral of Salisbury, but of this preferment he was soon deprived as a "malignant.
Eberhard stated the arguments for the broader view with dignity, acuteness and learning, but the liberality of the reasoning gave great offence to the strictly orthodox divines, and is believed to have obstructed his preferment in the church.
Three years after quitting the university, the young bachelor removed by the advice of his parents to Rome, as affording a better field for ecclesiastical preferment than he could find at home.
Her personal example, indeed, and the scrupulous integrity with which she reserved all ecclesiastical preferment for persons of unblemished piety, contributed greatly to bring about an amelioration in the morals of the secular clergy.
His preferment was effected by lavish bribery, and by his consummate address, as well as energy of character.
I believe I told you of Crawfurd's(13) preferment in my letter of last Friday sevennight.
One obstacle must have stood not a little in the way of that preferment after which his whole life seems to have panted.
He enjoyed his preferment little more than a year; for in July, 1717, in his thirty-eighth year, he died at Chester on his way to Ireland.
She cared not which was her friend or which was her enemy, if only she could get this preferment which she so sorely wanted.
The bishop was of course only too happy to be able to be the means of restoring to Mr. Harding the preferment which he had so long adorned.
His preferment and pleasant house were a second time gone from him, but that he could endure.
Trefoil must go, I really do not see why, with your lordship's assistance, I should not hold the preferment myself.
To have shaken what remained of his Church of England faith would have gratified her much, but the idea of his abandoning his prefermentin the church had never once presented itself to her mind.
He did not feel that he should at all derogate from his new courage by promising Mrs. Proudie that the very first piece of available preferment at his disposal should be given to Quiverful to atone for the injury done to him.
More than one piece of preferment had lately been given away much in accordance with advice tendered to the government in the columns of "The Jupiter.
In any matter touching church preferment you would of course be listened to.
Madge, who retired and accepted church preferment in 1907, the school was made to meet the requirements of the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations, the London University Matriculation, and the South Kensington Science and Art Departments.
Though his hopes of preferment were never realised, he tried his best on this slender income 'to make a happy fireside clime to weans and wife,' and in a sense succeeded.
His vain hopes of preferment were already 'thrown behind and far away,' and he saw clearly that by the labour of his own hands he had to live, independent of the dispensations of patronage, and trusting no longer to the accidents of fortune.
This preferment Petrarch is supposed to have owed to the influence of Cardinal Colonna.
I only mean that there is no person of your rank whose preferment I desire; nor would I accept such preferment if it were offered to me.
This preferment excited the envy of some persons, who endeavoured to prejudice Ugolino de' Rossi, the bishop of the diocese, against him.
Common sailors, therefore, more frequently get some fortune and preferment than common soldiers; and the hope of those prizes is what principally recommends the trade.
The same difference runs through all the inferior degrees of preferment in both.
On that occasion he writes:-- 'No preferment could have given me so much real satisfaction.
His wife's fortune had enabled him to live comfortably, and in a pecuniary point of view there was no need to seek preferment or exercise his calling.
Had preferment been offered him, he would have doubted his ability to fulfil its duties after so many years of leisure.
Even if he got no more, it would not have seemed 'a moderate price' to a man whosepreferment hitherto had been only £100 a year.
He said that he was the most importunate suitor forpreferment ever known; and that himself had been the bearer of letters to great men, soliciting promotion to livings, and had hardly escaped kicking down stairs.
Ye know not where yourpreferment lieth I see, He sending you such a token, ring and letter.
He could not take upon himself to declare," he said, "what might be Lord Brock's pleasure with reference to the preferment at Barchester which was vacant.
No doubt he did wish to be Bishop of Westminster, and was anxious to compass that preferment by any means that might appear to him to be fair.
And then, in the course of eighteen months, this poor piece of preferment fell in the dean's way, this incumbency of Hogglestock with its stipend reaching one hundred and thirty pounds a year.
This also was convenient, and taught our young prebendary to look on his new preferment more favourably than he had hitherto done.
He and Robarts had known each other since the latter had been in the diocese, and now, owing to Mark's preferment in the chapter, had become almost intimate.
He would immediately abandon this preferment at Barchester, of which it might be said with so much colour that he had bought it.
Many have been raised to extraordinary preferment by capricious monarchs for the sake of a jest.
If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.
To get preferment by it, And thinks he now to pop me i'th' mouth But with an Earldome?
Your Master will not stay, Unless prefermentcome within an hour.
Leaving the charge of their monasteries to the priors, they spent the incomes where new preferment was to be looked for, and devoted their time to intrigues rather than to prayers.
He knew what patrons were likely to have preferment to give away, and how those patrons were to be reached.
Preferment in church or state must no longer go to the vulgar.
Nor was it in money and in ecclesiastical preferment alone that the bishops were paid for the services which they too often neglected to perform.
In old France the road to preferment was through the court; but to shine at court a considerable income was required; and so the noblesse de cour was more or less identical with the richer nobility.
After the Restoration, our author was not only reinstated in his former situations, but received from his patron, Bishop Wren, several valuable pieces of preferment besides.
