This prelate was supposed to have paid a valuable consideration for his bishopric; and, after his elevation, had sold the preferments in his gift with a view of being reimbursed.
His school fell off; he exchanged his preferments for others less preferable; he failed in a school at Cavan, and ultimately the poor man came back to die at Dublin, in 1738, in distressed circumstances.
But write him down a slave, who, humbly proud, With presents begs preferments from the crowd.
Cromwell afterwards made the most rapid progress in state-preferments ever known.
In the course of his combats for his mistress, his valour and skill in arms so engaged the Duke to his interest, that he offered him the highest preferments if he would remain at his court.
Disposed of preferments and employments to Tories, or reputed Tories, by his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant in about the space of six years.
What scandals have preferments proved to the world, and how many have they ruined!
He abandoned his preferments on Mary's accession and made his way to Strassburg.
In 1232, after a severe illness, he resigned all his benefices andpreferments except one prebend which he held at Lincoln.
Nay, common fame is more than ordinarily false if none of them have found a way to reconcile the opinions of Rome to the preferments of England, and be so absolutely, directly and cordially Papists that it is all that 1,500l.
He was made lord Seymour of Sudley, and soon after, lord high-admiral--preferments greatly exceeding any expectations which his birth or his services to the state could properly authorize.
They were all allowed to retain their prefermentsat home for eighteen months after their arrival in the islands.
Shall I, under these circumstances, please the Emperor by making up matters with Alessandro, and accept the ecclesiastical preferments which have, in that case, been offered me?
It became with Williams no longer a question of refusing preferments on both hands with lavish self-denial, but of escaping the harsh penalties reserved for such as he by the Courts of High Commission and the Star Chamber.
He knows what gains and preferments I have refused in universities, city, country and court," etc.
Fuller was not formally dispossessed of his living and prebend on the triumph of the Presbyterian party, but he relinquished both preferments about this time.
He first studied law, and practised for a time as an advocate, but eventually took orders and after various preferments became abbe of Chalivoy in the diocese of Bourges in 1662.
He bestowed pensions and preferments on Henderson, Gillespy, and other popular preachers, and practised every art to soften, if not to gain, his greatest enemies.
Smaller preferments in Church and State, estates in all parts of the kingdom, were lavishly granted to strangers.
He did not, like so many princes of his age, make ecclesiastical preferments a source of corrupt gain, but promoted good men from all quarters.
Foreigners came much to see him, and much admired him, and offered to him great preferments to come over to them; and the only inducement of several foreigners that came over into England was chiefly to see O.
Royalist, and suffered the loss of his preferments during the Commonwealth.
But the times were troublous, and he had hardly received these latter preferments when he was deprived of them.
These lasted for 20 years, and led to the temporary loss of his academic preferments and honours.
In another passage he plaintively enumerates the various preferments he had to resign on taking the bishopric of Bristol.
His preferments came apparently unsought, and he refused the Primacy, although it was pressed upon him by the King on the death of Archbishop Cornwallis in 1783.
The total value of these preferments was about 230 pounds a year, an income which Miss Waring seems to have thought enough to justify him in marrying.
I wait here but to see what they will do for me; and whenever preferments are given from me, as hope saved, I will come over.
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