A beneficed Anglican clergyman who refused to take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to William and Mary and their successors after the Glorious Revolution of1688.
It was now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergymen, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
It w now a twelvemonth since the funeral procession of the venerable clergymen, its last inhabitant, had turned from that gateway towards the village burying-ground.
Meanwhile, many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane's, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.
I rather wished, than believed him to be sincere; but at any rate, was perfectly ready to accede to his proposal. I knew that Mr. Wickham ought not to be a clergyman.
She sat in the pew with the clergyman's family, and when they had ended the psalm and looked up, they nodded and said, " It is right that thou art come! "
As the American poet and clergyman John Lancaster Spalding once said, " As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape."
Meanwhile, many settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane's, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.