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«PRELATE, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven's aristocracy. A gentleman of God.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.»
«DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not disdain to employ the humble allurement of human sacrifice. Very little is now known about the Druids and their faith. Pliny says their religion, originating in Britain, spread eastward as far as Persia. Caesar says those who desired to study its mysteries went to Britain. Caesar himself went to Britain, but does not appear to have obtained any high preferment in the Druidical Church, although his talent for human sacrifice was considerable. Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents. They were, in short, heathens and --as they were once complacently catalogued by a distinguished prelate of the Church of England --Dissenters.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«Tired of knocking at Preferment's door.»
«This the curse of service: Preferment goes by letter and affection, and not by old gradation, where each second stood heir to the first.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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gradation, gradations, heir, preferment
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