preferment

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"Please," said the Fool anxiously, "why does Preferment ride with the King's Favorite and never with me?"

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge

He was at first but a common Soldier, and has gone thro’ all the Degrees of Preferment.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

For a Tradesman to be heard vivâ voce, upon the Subject of a large Debt of a long standing,   0 10 6 For a poor Clergyman supplicating a Chaplainship, or any other Ecclesiastical Preferment.

From The Tricks of the Town: or, Ways and Means of getting Money by Thomson, John, fl. 1732

What with his Kindred, his Estate, and his Preferment, he is become powerful at Court.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Why," he wondered, "doth not Preferment live with me?

From A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 by Lehman, Edwin Partridge