But there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import unless the scholar heed it. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
But there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import, unless the scholar heed it. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Man (1850)] Reference
But there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import, unless the scholars heed it. From Wordnik.com. [Representative Men] Reference
I believe "clerisy" was first mentioned by Coleridge who wrote about the intellectual elite would be responsible to distribute culture throughout the (English) nation. From Wordnik.com. [The Bourgeoisie and the Clerisy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Only a few of the tyrants in the ruling clerisy do. From Wordnik.com. [Physicists against the nuclear option] Reference
At the same time, and as it were ironically, clerisy represents itself as the resolution of that crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Irony and Clerisy] Reference
Preaching to the choir is not limited to the clergy, and is no more interesting when the clerisy does it. From Wordnik.com. [Without God, Gall is Permitted] Reference
Institutionally, the interplay of theology and nation-state is embodied in Coleridge's vision of a specifically Anglican clerisy. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Irony and Clerisy] Reference
In The Bourgeois Virtues, Deirdre McCloskey refers to the merchant class as the bourgeoisie and the academic class as the clerisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Bourgeoisie and the Clerisy, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
It would be a mistake, however, to assume that an identity-oriented or traditionalist concept of the clerisy operates without its own quite deliberate ironies. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: Irony and Clerisy] Reference
The media treats it with the deference of a new clerisy. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But, alas! the ignorance of the essential distinction of a national clerisy, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
They seem to suppose themselves a small clerisy entrusted with the most urgent truth ever discovered. From Wordnik.com. [HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News] Reference
That's how the global-warming clerisy debates these days, but we'll try to take their argument seriously. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Gore] Reference
They will scorn him for pronouncing that a 'natural clerisy' is 'an essential element of a rightly constituted nation.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars, are these points of relative rest. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
Hence it follows that a primary condition of its utility is that the clerisy should contribute to the support of the other organs of the community. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
The Romans had no national clerisy; their priesthood was entirely a matter of state, and, as far back as we can trace it, an evident stronghold of the. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Reference
The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy wins its way up into these places, and gets represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest. From Wordnik.com. [XII. Essays. Manners. 1844] Reference
The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, wins their way up into these places and get represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
The artist, the scholar, and, in general, the clerisy, wins its way up into these places, and gets represented here, somewhat on this footing of conquest. From Wordnik.com. [Essays: Second Series (1844)] Reference
Although Davis was almost universally reviled by the clerisy of jazz writers for abandoning the true faith of acoustic jazz, some of the music on albums such as. From Wordnik.com. [BrothersJudd Blog] Reference
Isn’t honesty supposed to be one of the virtues of the clerisy?. From Wordnik.com. [Be a scientific consultant for the Clergy Letter Project! - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
It sounds like you’re describing the clerisy, as described in a post I wrote when I first heard about the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Four conditions required for a country to create works worthy of the Canon] Reference
Thankfully, some such amatuers disparaged and pilloried by a specific discipline’s self-anointed clerisy, are not shouted down forever. From Wordnik.com. [We Have 25 Years Invested in This Work… « Climate Audit] Reference
This angers today's academic clerisy. From Wordnik.com. [Longfellow: A Founder] Reference
It is held by what he calls the 'clerisy.'. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
US literary clerisy get owned by ... / 15 posts ». From Wordnik.com. [The Local - Sweden's news in English] Reference
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