| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1783 - 520 pages
...reputation of an order, which is deftitute of all the advantages of rank and diftin&ion. Fourthly, that rich and fplendid fituations in the church have been juftly regarded as prizes, held out to invite perfons of good hopes-and ingenious attainments to enter into its fervice ; that ibme of the moft judicious... | |
| 1804 - 538 pages
...from the lawn (Iceves, and fquare cap of his diocefan, will never endanger his humility. Again — ' Rich and fplendid fituations in the Church, have been juftly regarded as prizes, held 'out to invite perfons of good hopes, and ingenuous attainments. * Agreed. But the prize held out in the fcripture,... | |
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