 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 876 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 878 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1879 - 748 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convent*. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birtfi, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders... | |
 | Encyclopedias - 1880 - 890 pages
...considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. Tlie hope of obtaining one of those sinocures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom wont further than taking the inferior orders (see OUDEHS, HOLT); and it became... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 956 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clericfil career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLT);... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 1020 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. ; 9 8@ f rJ qM ޞ_ vi ̎) 'vz/ j... t _[ d 'l( = c j # m Vk X JM{ ڔ >C ͜ who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY); and it became... | |
 | 1901
...and Francis I. (1516), the French king had the right to nominate upwards of 200 Abbes commcndataires, who, without having any duty to perform, drew a third...orders. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitude* of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, which, however,... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1902 - 1010 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 960 pages
...without having any duty to perform, drew a considerable proportion of the revenues of the convents. The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes...them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY) ; and it became... | |
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The hope of obtaining one of those sinecures led multitudes of young men, many of them of noble birth, to enter the clerical career, who, however, seldom went further than taking the inferior orders (see ORDERS, HOLY); and it became customary to call... 
