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Their leaders, both lay and clerical, were unsurpassed in genius for argument and at this time outdid themselves.

If Mr. Carter did not like clerical characters of her stamp, neither did she like them of the stamp of Mr. Carter.

The laity seized the opportunity to rise against the clerical order, and to excuse themselves for disobedience to the Church.

The military President who assumed power in 1876 was too radical to suit the clericals and too clerical to suit the radicals.

Having declined, he felt that he had made a free choice of a clerical career.

On one occasion he resumed his clerical garb, and went round collecting subscriptions for an aged missionary and his wife.

Abandoning the idea of adopting the clerical profession, Mr. Simpson travelled on the Continent and in the East.

I suspect one of them of supplying the foreign information and the other of being the correspondent on home and clerical affairs.

The seed of discontent was again germinating under the duplicity of the Spanish lay and clerical authorities.

The tradition went on to assert that St. John without hesitation degraded this clerical romance-writer from his ministry.