Which preposition to use with incumbent

on Occurrences 154%

I endeavoured to convince my companion, that, as the Publick had seen in HOWARD a person who reflected more genuine honour on our country than any of her Philosophers, her Poets, her Orators, her Heroes, or Divines, it is incumbent on the Nation to consult her own glory by commemorating, in the fullest manner, his beneficent exertions, and by establishing the dignity of his unrivaled virtue.

of Occurrences 60%

The Rev. W. Sellon, incumbent of St. James, Clerkenwell, the parish in which the new chapel stood, was a pluralist, holding no less than four ecclesiastical appointments, yielding him in all £1500 a year.

from Occurrences 3%

What was to hinder the incumbent from reading the tale on my forehead the moment that I again stood in his presence?

in Occurrences 3%

The guiding principle of Spanish colonial policyto set one class against another, and to prevent either from becoming too powerfulseems to be the motive for placing so many native incumbents in the parsonages of the Archipelago.

at Occurrences 2%

Since St. Paul's was opened, there have been five incumbents at it.

by Occurrences 2%

It was not proposed to touch private endowments; and glebe-houses which had become generally dilapidated were handed over to incumbents by their paying a fair valuation.

for Occurrences 2%

But the real center of attraction in Zurich will be found by the traveler in that quarter where stands the Grossmünster, the church of which Zwingli was incumbent for twelve years.

between Occurrences 1%

Born in 1657, one of the later English Platonists, John Norris, who, with how many incumbents between I do not know, succeeded George Herbert in the cure of Bemerton, has left a few poems, which would have been better if he had not been possessed with the common admiration for the rough-shod rhythms of Abraham Cowley.

than Occurrences 1%

On those who are intrusted with the direction of public affairs this is more incumbent than on others" It is Dr. Tio-King reading Cornaro aloud, in order that he may remember his principles better.

to Occurrences 1%

I speak of Gi-ri, literally the Right Reason, but which came in time to mean a vague sense of duty which public opinion expected an incumbent to fulfil.

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