During the interval which elapsed between his commercial reverses and the period of his physical debility, he prepared a novel, which he had early projected, depicting the trials and sufferings of an unbeneficed preacher. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference
The brother who now arrived had likewise been bred to trade, in which he no sooner saw himself worth L6000 than he purchased a small estate with the greatest part of it, and retired into the country; where he married the daughter of an unbeneficed clergyman. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
He was unbeneficed, having no time for parish work. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Ages] Reference
He dismissed his curates when they married, having decided views on the celibacy of the unbeneficed clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
Bishop Broughton published a strong appeal to the numerous unbeneficed clergymen in Great Britain, to whom he represented these colonies as a field of great promise. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Tasmania, Volume I] Reference
"drop-down-dead-ativeness" of manner which Sydney Smith quizzed still characterizes the demeanour of the unbeneficed clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Collections and Recollections] Reference
A parish that needed a young, strong, and energetic man to an old fellow who knew nothing of parochial work, and had feathered his nest already; but the mutterings of the unbeneficed clergy do not reach the ears of a cathedral Chapter. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
The brother who now arrived had likewise been bred to trade, in which he no sooner saw himself worth £6000 than he purchased a small estate with the greatest part of it, and retired into the country; where he married the daughter of an unbeneficed clergyman; a young lady, who, though she had neither beauty nor fortune, had recommended herself to his choice entirely by her good humour, of which she possessed a very large share. From Wordnik.com. [History of Tom Jones, a Foundling] Reference
'You, an incarnate sinecure and vested interest, a creature revelling in an unearned income of fabulous Oriental magnificence -- I dare say, putting one thing with another, fully as much as five hundred a year -- to ask me, the unbeneficed and insignificant, with my wretched pittance of eighty pounds per annum and my three pass-men a term for classical mods, how I scrape together the few miserable, hoarded ha'pence which I grudgingly invest in my pots and pipkins!. From Wordnik.com. [Philistia] Reference
Parents with nine children; nine children without parents; clergymen most improperly unbeneficed; officers most wickedly reduced; widows of younger sons of quality sacrificed to the Colonies; sisters of literary men sacrificed to national works, which required his patronage to appear; daughters who had known better days, but somehow or other had not been so well acquainted with their parents; all advanced with multiplied petitions, and that hackneyed, heartless air of misery which denotes the mumper. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Duke] Reference
1362, he took particular pains to regulate the stipends of the unbeneficed clergy, who were induced by the greatly diminished number of priests to exact higher remuneration for their services than formerly. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
That much reproach is brought upon the beneficed, and much oppression upon the unbeneficed, clergy, by curates accepting too scanty salaries from incumbents. "and which was really the last subject that was ever brought before. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
The rest unbeneficed your sects maintain. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
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