The poverty of great numbers among the Clergy of England, hath been the continual complaint of all men who wish well to the Church, and many schemes have been thought on to redress it; yet an English vicar of £40 a-year, lives much more comfortably than one of double the value in Ireland.

And that thou mayst not throw away thy soul and so great a hope, through mere sloth and loathness to be at some pains for thy life, let the text, which hath been thy directory about the things that belong to thy peace, be also thy motive, as it gives thee to behold the Son of God weeping over such as would not know those things.

There hath, indeed, been some little improvement in the manufactures of linen and woollen, although very short of perfection: But our trade was never in so low a condition: And as to agriculture, of which all wise nations have been so tender, the desolation made in the country by engrossing graziers, and the great yearly importation of corn from England, are lamentable instances under what discouragement it lies.

To him Gouvernail said: "Messire, I do not think that Sir Tristram is dead, for he hath always been a most wonderful swimmer and diver.

This house hath been a scene of nothing else But atheist riot and profane excess, Since my old master quitted all his rights here.

What my sin hath been imports not to theeand I seek not to know thine.

I can remember when this house hath been A sanctuary to a poor orphan girl From evil tongues and injuries of the world.

To give to him that hath is the tendency against which we must ever guard in planning and administering systems of public education.

" "He hath been the instrument of saving seven Christians from death.

For once, fortune hath not been a niggard with me.

"In Christ's dear kingdom is no mine or thine, but all that each hath is the property of the others.

Another hath been a bawd, a pander to some great men, a parasite, a slave," "prostituted himself, his wife, daughter," to some lascivious prince, and for that he is exalted.

There hath been little zeal or endeavour for such a uniformity, little praying for it, or mourning over the obstructions of it; but, upon the contrary, a toleration was embraced, introductive of a sectarian multiformity of religion without a testimony against the toleration even of Popery itself, under the usurper James, Duke of York; and since the Revolution the land hath done exceeding much to harden them.

For what hath ever been The end of earthly power and pomp, but darkness?

"I hope God's Book hath not been my seldomest lectures.

A WIDOW Hath always been a mark for mockery:a standing butt for wit to level at.

Having been engaged in ascetic austerities for the (last) eight and five years, Vibhatsu will strike me but mildly in this conflict, and the son of Kunti having become a Brahmana endued with good qualities, hath thus become a fit person to quietly receive shafts by thousands shot by me.

As for poor maimed and distressed soldiers, which repaired thither for maintenance, the wine, money, and meat which they had in very bounteous sort, hath become a sufficient spur to them to blaze it abroad since their coming to London."

Slander thence hath always been a principal engine whereby covetous, ambitious, envious, ill-natured, and vain persons have striven to supplant their competitors, and advance themselves; meaning thereby to procure, what they chiefly prize and like, wealth, or dignity, or reputation, favour and power in the court, respect and interest with the people.

" Then Galahad held up his hands toward heaven and said: "Lord, I thank thee, for now I see that that hath been my desire many a day.

Truth has no charms for thee, old man; even now, Some further cheat may lurk upon thy brow; Twice have I shown thee mercy, twice thy age Hath been thy safetytwice it soothed my rage.

This hath been the devil's practice, and his infernal ministers in all ages; not as our Saviour by a few silly fishermen, to confound the wisdom of the world, to save publicans and sinners, but to make advantage of their ignorance, to convert them and their associates; and that they may better effect what they intend, they begin, as I say, with poor, stupid, illiterate persons.

Because Jehovah hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, Against whom thou hast dealt faithlessly, Though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant.

since you will have it, Baron Herbert; He who will gain his Seignory when Idonea Hath become Clifford's harlotis he living?

Examples: "Lastly, they go about to apologize for the long time their book hath been a coming out:" i.e., in coming out.