16 Metaphors for vicar

This meditative monarch recognized that public office is a public trust, and wrote: "Vicars of God are the kings, each one in his kingdom, placed over the people to maintain them in justice and in truth.

" A very different writer was Oliver Goldsmith, whose Vicar of Wakefield, 1766, was the earliest, and is still one of the best, novels of domestic and rural life.

The Vicar was almost jocose, and Mrs. Lorimer made timid attempts to be mirthful though the parting with her children sorely tried her fortitude.

The present vicar is the Rev. Joseph Fell.

Others think the vicar was Simon Symonds, who (according to Ray) was an independent in the protectorate, a high churchman in the reign of Charles II., a papist under James II., and a moderate churchman in the reign of William III.

" The Vicar of Wakefield, as we know, was no hurried piece of work.

The Vicar of Wakefield is a delightful book, with a great tradition behind it and a future still before it; but it has not escaped the ravages of time, and I would, now, at all events, gladly exchange it for Oliver Goldsmith's Itinerary through Germany with a Flute!

Briefly, The Vicar of Wakefield is the story of a simple English clergyman, Dr. Primrose, and his family, who pass from happiness through great tribulation.

Another Vicar of Embleton, who lived here from 1874 to 1884, was Dr. Mandell Creighton, the learned historian, who became Bishop of London.

The Vicar was the center of the circle.

The Vicar of Wakefield was Dr. Primrose, but he might just as well have been called Dr. Shamrock.

The Vicar of Wakefield is Goldsmith's only novel, and the first in any language that gives to home life an enduring romantic interest.

And the Easteven the pagan Easthad learned at last that the Vicar of Christ was the Friend of Peace and Progress.

I have heard Father Payne speak of them with admiration as never being discursive, and I gathered that the Vicar was a great admirer of Newman's sermons.

" By virtue of searching articles of inquiry administered to them, such as, Is your vicar a double-beneficed man, and, if so, is he lawfully dispensated?

That vicar of Whitford was a Jesuit.

16 Metaphors for  vicar