 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1847 - 332 pages
...bench oo principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...their native insignificance; and during our agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been called in question; when,... | |
 | 1854 - 624 pages
...appanages for the younger sons of great families. But the Premier's notions of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a young noble into universityhonours ; and his test of priestly celebrity was the decent editorship of a Greek play. He... | |
 | James MacGrigor Allan - 1863 - 344 pages
...begun ?" " Martin Chuzzlewit," by CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ. "But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a young noble into university honors ; and his test of priestly celebrity was the decent Editorship of a Greek play, He sought for... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1871 - 504 pages
...bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...their native insignificance ; and during our agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been called in question ; when,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 508 pages
...distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who bad suckled a young noble into university honours ; and...their native insignificance ; and during our agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been called in question ; when,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 506 pages
...bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...their native insignificance ; and during our agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been called in question ; when,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1900 - 512 pages
...bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his uotion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...exception, subsided into their native insignificance; and during_onr agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been culled... | |
 | Wilfrid Meynell - Diaries - 1903 - 734 pages
...Bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a young noble into university honors; and his test of priestly celebrity was the decent editorship of a Greek play. He sought for... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - English literature - 1904 - 446 pages
...bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...their native insignificance; and during our agitated age, when the principles of all institutions, sacred and secular, have been called in question; when,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1904 - 636 pages
...reconstructed ' on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a...Calvary, among third-rate hunters after syllables.' It was unity, a sense of responsibility, and spirituality which the Church required to make the alliance... | |
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... was impressed with the necessity of reconstructing the episcopal bench on principles of personal distinction and ability. But his notion of clerical capacity did not soar higher than a private tutor who had suckled a young noble into university honours;... 
