But ere his death some pious doubts arise, Some simple fears, which 'bold bad' men despise; Fain would he ask the parish-priest to prove His title certain to the joys above: For this he sends the murm'ring nurse, who calls The holy stranger to these dismal walls: And doth not he, the pious man, appear, He, 'passing rich with forty pounds a year?' Ah!

Vladimir engaged zealously in building churches throughout the towns and villages of his dominions, and sent priests to preach in them.

"I couldn't tell the priest any more.

In this other temple I found the priests of the idols, who open and adorn the temples at the Kalends, and the people make offerings of bread and fruits.

He'd bring his priests in here, or his nuns disguised as ladies' maids, and we should all go over, every one of us, like a set of nine- pins!' 'You seem to think Protestantism a rather shaky cause, if it is so easy to be upset.' 'Sir!

Then King Richard, looking toward the spot whence the sound came, saw a tall, burly, strapping priest standing in front of all the crowd with his legs wide apart as he backed against those behind.

There he was ordained priest, and there he founded a chapel in honour of St Edmund.

"On the contr-y," replied the little priest, "'e 'as come ad hisse'f.

"Keep still," ordered the priest; "your cheek is frozen"; and he applied more snow and more friction.

" "For Heaven's sake, let us not talk of such sad things!" cried the priest, protesting against the mere mention of death, as almost every Italian will.

This holy man narrates, how one day he met a priest of the Society of Jesus, who asked him to recite the Hours with him, and that before beginning their prayer the Jesuit fell on his knees, saying, "There are some who speak of saying the Office as if it were a trifle.

From Naga I visited the parish priest of Libmanan (Ligmanan), who, possessing poetical talent, and having the reputation of a natural philosopher, collected and named pretty beetles and shells, and dedicated the most elegant little sonnets.

At the end of the address, the story concludes, the troopers with bent heads followed the priest into the Russian camp.

The action left the priest and the prisoner again alone between the columns.

He included the other priests and lay-brothers in a slight circular movement of the grizzled head.

These occupied the fortified cities, were the most inveterate heathenthe aristocracy of idolatry, the kings, the nobility and gentry, the priests, with their crowds of satellites, and retainers that aided in the performance of idolatrous rites, the military forces, with the chief profligates and lust-panders of both sexes.

"When the German Emperor took steps to appoint Catholic priests in the prisoners' camps where Irish soldiers are interned, the English at once appointed forty-five Catholic priests with officer's rank, to the British army in France.

They forced their priests to marry, saying that the man who had no wife necessarily sought for the wife of another.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle, with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves, with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration.

At the head of one of them was Hildebrand, leading his priests to worship at a shrine.

Before the high altar stood the officiating priest, a young man, the image, yet not the image, of himself.

Then he was all for walking back alone and killing the priests with his bare hands; which he could have done.

" "Wretch!" exclaimed the priest indignantly, "thy mercenary demand alone proves the vanity of thy pretence of being initiated into the secrets of the Gods.

As we shall see in the close of the letter, she did not regard those priests who had taken the oath imposed by the Assembly, but which the Pope had condemned, as any longer priests.

'What accusation do you bring against this man?' said he, addressing the priests in the most scornful tone possible.