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1  A clergyman cannot be high in state or fashion.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  She never has danced with a clergyman, she says, and she never will.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  But I must beg some advantage to the clergyman from your own argument.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  Their father is a clergyman, and their brother is a clergyman, and they are all clergymen together.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  At length, after a short pause, Miss Crawford began with, "So you are to be a clergyman, Mr. Bertram."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  A great many things were due from poor Mr. Norris, as clergyman of the parish, that cannot be expected from me.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  There is the parsonage: a tidy-looking house, and I understand the clergyman and his wife are very decent people.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  You assign greater consequence to the clergyman than one has been used to hear given, or than I can quite comprehend.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  You shook your head at my acknowledging that I should not like to engage in the duties of a clergyman always for a constancy.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  But a parish has wants and claims which can be known only by a clergyman constantly resident, and which no proxy can be capable of satisfying to the same extent.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  Edmund would be forgiven for being a clergyman, it seemed, under certain conditions of wealth; and this, she suspected, was all the conquest of prejudice which he was so ready to congratulate himself upon.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  A fine preacher is followed and admired; but it is not in fine preaching only that a good clergyman will be useful in his parish and his neighbourhood, where the parish and neighbourhood are of a size capable of knowing his private character, and observing his general conduct, which in London can rarely be the case.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  Edmund might, in the common phrase, do the duty of Thornton, that is, he might read prayers and preach, without giving up Mansfield Park: he might ride over every Sunday, to a house nominally inhabited, and go through divine service; he might be the clergyman of Thornton Lacey every seventh day, for three or four hours, if that would content him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV