How To Use Benefice In A Sentence

  • [116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
  • In the times which we call barbarous, great benefices and abbeys were taxed in France to the third of their revenue. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Enjoin beneficence and forbid malevolence: so shalt thou be loved of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Young penniless curates must love somebody as well as young beneficed vicars and rectors. The Claverings
  • In central Francia in the ninth century, moreover, the Frankish king did not hesitate to remove benefices from church lands to give them to his vassi, or to force the church to maintain mounted soldiers at its own expense.
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  • Latimer, despite having opportunity to preach often in London, soon grew weary of court and the king offered him a benefice at West Kington, in Wiltshire.
  • We remained nearly an hour beside our beneficent fountain, then took the route for Senegal; that is, a southerly direction, for we did not know exactly where that country lay. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
  • It affects those who are the beneficiaries of the charity's functions, beneficence and bounty.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • * This is the name theologians conventionally give to the contradiction between an all-powerful and beneficent God who nevertheless creates or allows evil to exist in the world. In the Valley of the Shadow
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  • His last years, lived by invitation in cottages in Sussex and Kent, fed and wined by beneficent admirers, provided a sort of rural coda of tranquillity.
  • Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Regular contact with the beneficent mystical forces will surround you with a protective aura.
  • The economic and social power of Church beneficence exposed the poverty of public provision for the poor.
  • Still in beneficent mood, the guards allowed the prisoners to play musical instruments for two hours each evening and permitted a concert on Easter Sunday. A MAN SENT FROM GOD
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Some features of its make-up were evidences of his goodness and beneficence, while others displayed his displeasure.
  • Hercules’ pillars in a warm benefice, to be easily inclinable, if he have nothing else that may rouse up his studies, to finish his circuit in an English Concordance and a topic folio, the gatherings and savings of a sober graduateship, a Harmony and a Areopagitica
  • When read as a literary whole, Genesis 1-2 posits a world that is divinely beneficent and bountiful, in no need of human genius to improve or control it.
  • The poor in these paintings provided an opportunity for the prudent and beneficent wealthy to display their charity, such as in Beechey's Portrait of Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy.
  • Those who issue dimissory letters contrary to the form of this decree, shall be ipso jure suspended from their office and benefices for one year.
  • Behold how gracious and beneficent smiles the roseate morn!
  • Instead, they will be populated by industrious persons traveling to these beneficent climates in search of the prosperity that has eluded them in their own country.
  • Maybe she had, but I'd forgotten, or at least not made the association between that beneficent patron of my childhood and the old man at the awards ceremony.
  • Then to restore a more cheerful atmosphere, Helen casts "nepenthe" into the wine, thanks to which beneficent drug all soon forget their woes. The Book of the Epic
  • Of course, judaic organization is not the organization that provides beneficent service forever.
  • I owuld donate the whole amount of money to Orbis annoymously to support beneficence.
  • Often these gifts are exchanged in special ceremonies where participants compete to appear the most beneficent, because status is accorded to those who give the most to others.
  • Before that, there was only the glare of unsuccess, without, evidently, the masterpiece's long but occasionally beneficent shadow. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
  • Venetis, atque adeo regis Romanorum subditis largita vnquam aut donata fuit, celsitudinem vestram rogamus ne tam singularis beneficenti� laus in tam angustis terminis duorum aut trium hominum concludatur, sed ad vniuersos subditos nostrus diffusa, propagat醧ue, celsitudinis vestr� beneficium e� reddat augustius, qu� eiusdem donatio lati鵶 patebit, et ad plures pertinebit. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The title ‘dean’ is also held - as ‘rural dean’ - by a beneficed clergyman in a part-time capacity.
  • Let us, then, endeavor to indicate that beneficent force which tends progressively to overcome the maleficent force to which we have given the name spoliation, and the existence of which is only too well explained by reason and proved by experience. Sophisms of the Protectionists
  • As he passed along he would every now and then draw a maravedi out of his pocket and bestow it on a beggar, with an air of signal beneficence. Washington Irving
  • Unless the real recipient of the foundation's beneficence is capitalism itself, which will now teach even poets a good lesson in the imperatives of market discipline? Poetry
  • And may'st thou, stranger to ostentation, and superior to insolence, with true greatness of soul shine forth conspicuous only in beneficence! Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
  • It affects those who are the beneficiaries of the charity's functions, beneficence and bounty.
  • Ethiopia is expecting a beneficent harvest, so that's a relief, or an absence of relief.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Once we got used to the word halal, no explanation became necessary for the giant KFC billboard which went up in Dearborn, Michigan, proudly stating below the beneficent smile of Colonel Sanders: "Now Serving Halal. The Reality Check
  • Many supporters from leading Frankish families followed him to Italy and were for a long time cut off from their properties and benefices in the countries of origin (which were often even confiscated).
  • The Egyptian sphinx -- there were three varieties, this being an 'androsphinx', with the head of a man and the body of a lion -- was viewed beneficently as a GUARDIAN of the paths to important or sacred premises. Archive 2007-12-01
  • Clearly she presides over this field or crop, as she walks through it like a beneficent goddess.
  • Each ecclesiastic, be he bishop, abbot, or priest, had right to a benefice, that is, to the revenue of a parcel of land attached to his post. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
  • Then put as a second point on your note-book the fact that at least 500,000 men and women are abstracted or will be abstracted from the beneficent productive work of Canada in making supplies, equipments, doing subsidiary services of a thousand different kinds, all to aid the processes of destruction and demolition which are being carried on by the advanced 500,000 men. Trade Preparations for Coming Peace
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Since the usufruct allowed to clerics resembled the grants of land which sovereigns were accustomed to make to subjects who had distinguished themselves by military or political service, and which the Church was at times compelled to concede to powerful lay lords in order to secure necessary protection in troubled times, it was natural that the term benefice, which had been applied to these grants, should be employed to denote the similar practice in regard to ecclesiastics. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • She is beneficent in will and speech: It is Isis the beneficent, the avenger of her brother: she unrepiningly sought him: Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
  • Refractories who refused it were to be ineligible for benefices under the new order.
  • All clergy who hoped for election to a benefice in the new constitutional Church had to take it.
  • Lastly, in 1571, the Settlement gained teeth sharper than the Act of Uniformity, when a Subscription Act required the beneficed clergy to assent to the Thirty-nine Articles.
  • He also promised to promote her son, then studying at Cambridge, to appropriate benefices and to make other benefactions.
  • Sunt enim aliae virtutes, quae videntur in moribus hominum, et quadam comitate ac beneficentia positae: aliae quae in ingenii aliqua facultate, aut animi magnitudine ac robore. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
  • He tucked it under his wiry forearm and smiled at me with what I took to be an underhanded beneficence.
  • King of Portugal, to be the first bishop of Saint Thomas of Mylapur, and granted Philip and his heirs and successors in perpetuity the right of patronage and presentation to the see, and the benefices that might be created therein, by the mere facts of their creation and dotation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Latins called the maleficent ghosts of the dead, Larvae, and called the beneficent or harmless ghosts, Lares, or Manes, or Genii, according to Apuleius. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation
  • The term desertion is also applied to a cleric's abandonment of his benefice, whether it be residential or non-residential. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • Whereupon Salih arose and, kissing the ground a second time, said, “O King of the Age, my errand is to Allah and the magnanimous liege lord and the valiant lion, the report of whose good qualities the caravans far and near have dispread and whose renown for benefits and beneficence and clemency and graciousness and liberality to all climes and countries hath sped.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • There are about 10,000 beneficed clergy working whole-time for the Church, and a rather larger number unpaid, retired or working as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and so on.
  • His heart is naturally beneficent, and his beneficence is the gift of God for the most excellent purposes, as Pamela
  • The invincible firmness and constancy of the saint appeared in the recovery of the revenues of the curacies and other benefices which had been given to the Orders of St. Lazarus and St. Maurice; the restoration of which, after many difficulties, he effected by the joint authority of the pope and the duke of Savoy. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • As a young priest he obtained a rich benefice from the Archbishop of Braga and proceeded to go on pilgrimage, leaving the benefice in the care of a nephew. 01/01/2003 - 02/01/2003
  • Perhaps the book helped him to relieve a conscience burdened by the knowledge that he was not carrying out the pastoral duties of his benefice.
  • The term installation is also applied to the institutio corporalis, or putting in possession of any ecclesiastical benefice whatsoever (see INSTITUTION, CANONICAL); or, again, to the solemn entry of a parish priest into his new parish, even when this solemn act takes place after the parish priest has really been put in possession of his benefice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
  • The recent scandalous examples of malfeasance and untruthfulness of too many big business leaders and some of our foremost politicians have reduced the public trust in the beneficence of anybody.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • And she has lived and waxed stronger and stronger, and the General Synod has been a mighty agent in sustaining and extending her beneficent work, and is destined to see a future which shall eclipse all her glory in the past. American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South)
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • He did not prohibit smoking - only the advent of our new, democratic, accessible, devolved parliament has provoked this beneficent prospect.
  • It is apparently a lurking disposition to induce men to discharge the duties of beneficence, without laying their hearts on the altar of God, and keeping them perpetually burning there; whereas Christ requires the _heart_, and the heart _always_; and then that conduct which inevitably bursts from a consecrated soul. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character
  • _Benefices, and mission villages of Indian natives in the diocese of the archbishopric of Manila both in charge of the secular priests and of religious; and the number of souls cared for in the archbishopric_. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing
  • As an intruder has no true title to receive the revenues of the benefice which he uncanonically holds, he is bound in conscience to make restitution of what are ill-gotten gains to the lawful titular. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • The Bull also conferred the right to present candidates for all the abbacies and prelacies of the regulars and, indeed for every ecclesiastical benefice, large or small. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • Lothar remained grateful to him, praising his knowledge and, as pope, conferring benefices on him.
  • The consequences of last month's election, all of them beneficent, continue to unfold.
  • The term beneficence connotes acts of mercy, kindness, and charity, and is suggestive of altruism, love, humanity, and promoting the good of others. The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics
  • Lister had only recentlv promulgated his beneficent and far reaching discovery, aseptics; and even the use of anaesthetics, which had been known to the world for nearly fifteen years, was awkward, crude and imperfect. Narrative of prison life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio,
  • England had been, and revered him with such enthusiasm for what she called his magnificent manhood and beneficence, as was ready on the least encouragement to have become something a good deal warmer; but whatever she did served to make her distasteful to him. My Young Alcides
  • Hawthorn-Grove Rector; Sir Charles Conway having already secured to him the next presentation to that benefice, which is, it seems, nearly the same in value, but which he would prefer, as he thinks it would be more pleasant to you to live near Lady Conway elect. Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
  • It is also possible that, as later in the middle ages, the numbers of deacons and priests ordained outstripped the availability of benefices.
  • In reality, of course, governments are not omniscient and beneficent, and the last thing we want to do is give them control over the reporting of news and the expression of opinion.
  • A benefice consisting of six parishes can commonly have five patrons who all have views on their incumbent.
  • On the other hand, maybe we think that governments do behave, at least some of the time, in beneficent fashion. Teaching Un-Normal Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • The general purport of the Constitutions, when they were at last made known, was to transfer certain causes -- for example, those regarding presentations to benefices -- from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical to that of the King's Courts, to restrain appeals to Rome, to prevent the excommunication of the king's officers and great vassals, and to sanction the king's appropriation of the revenues of bishoprics and abbacies. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
  • This practice was also founded on the notion that a fief was a benefice, and that, while the heir could not perform his military services, the revenue devolved to the superior, who employed another in his stead. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • He loves me, reverend father, "and a transient glow passed o'er the sallow, cheek of the religieux; 'with all the energy of his grateful nature loves me, for what he terms the beneficence of charity, what I term the bare impulse of duty. The confessional of Valombre
  • Long ago the emperors and princes of Germany allowed the Pope to claim the annates [6] from all German benefices; that is, half of the first year's income from every benefice.
  • If nuclear energy to date has found its application in destruction, that is something for which the scientist can not ask to be wholly excused from an adverse judgment; but he has a right to say that he has made available to us, to the citizens, to the politicians, a knowledge of the powers of nature which can be applied maleficently, beneficently, through temporarily destructive methods, or beneficently through wholly, constructive methods, at choice. Scientist and Citizen
  • The milder and more beneficent forces of nature were addressed as female deities and invoked with prayers.
  • It wanted priests and bishops to be resident; benefices to be awarded on merit alone; and greater care in the selection of candidates.
  • Liberal, beneficent, and traditional ideas have returned to their rightful place through the dispersal of the odious and despicable factions which sought to overawe the Councils.
  • By the same act any person for corrupt consideration presenting, instituting or inducting to an ecclesiastical benefice or dignity forfeits two years 'value of the benefice or dignity; the corrupt presentation is void, and the right to present lapses for that turn to the crown, and the corrupt presentee is disabled from thereafter holding the same benefice or dignity; a corrupt institution or induction is void, and the patron may present. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
  • England's successful wars against the French, its growing overseas empire, its social stability and its mercantile hegemony were all interpreted as the blessings of a beneficent providence on a Protestant people.
  • Popularly the term benefice is often understood to denote either certain property destined for the support of ministers of religion, or a spiritual office or function, such as the care of souls, but in the strict sense it signifies a right, i.e. the right given permanently by the Church to a cleric to receive ecclesiastical revenues on account of the performance of some spiritual service. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • The discussion over euthanasia is often a conflict of different values, including: autonomy family, community, faith traditions, society beneficence care provider values The Values and Ethics of Euthanasia : Law is Cool
  • Lucky star this beneficent sale of work is from capital supportive disaster area rebuilds merely, continuance " spirit of relieve the people in disaster " begin.
  • In every roll of the dice, he sees a question posed to the unknown - and maybe beneficent - forces of the universe.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • The ethical principles of non- maleficence and beneficence might be used as justification for overriding her autonomy.
  • In March 1403 his numerous benefices were reckoned to be worth over £800 a year.
  • From the 1970s, beneficent citizens who resented the way in which a few outdoor advertising corporations were allowed to control public spaces began to answer back.
  • They are carriers of important values that represent a common good, and that must be sustained by charitable beneficence.
  • He is too severe on the harmless and even beneficent race of coquettes, who brighten life so much, who so rapidly “draw up with the new pleugh lad,” and who do so very little harm when all is said. Old Mortality
  • Every noble enjoying full transmissible nobility was entitled to participate in the noble assemblies, as was every beneficed clergyman in the clerical ones.
  • With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. Bertrand Russell 
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Huity to J.S. until he be promoted to a competent benefice, and 251. at the time of the grant he was but a mean perfon, and afterward is made an arch-deacon, yet if 1 offer him a competent benefice* according to his eftate at the time of the grant, the annuity doth ceafe. Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]
  • But I don't think she's ever understood that the public wants her typecast as a beneficent, starched woman with at least two children in tow.
  • But it would be a long time before you came up with a source of happiness that derived from the beneficence of government.
  • Visitors to either venue cannot help but reflect on the pervasive, beneficent influence that this durable document has had on our personal and civic lives.
  • And if God is not beneficent and all-powerful - well, what then of God's traditional identity, his essence?
  • Ancient Mariner assured him in beneficent cackles. CHAPTER IX
  • This being the case, does the rich man's help to the needy, on which he so readily prides himself as something meritorious, really deserve to be called beneficence at all?
  • Where Rice sharply differs from Fukuyama is in her vision of a strong tension between a beneficent order of liberal states and the “transnational forces” that seek to tear down the global system. Grand Illusions
  • Such churches and chapels shall be considered as presentative benefices.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • But why was Blake so confident that excess would lead to a beneficent result rather than merely more excess?
  • The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of — -; let us call it Barchester. The Warden
  • Canonists also extend the term intrusion to the keeping possession of a benefice by a hitherto lawful possessor, after it has been vacated by violation of certain decrees of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
  • She could only hope that in the event of his being acquitted at the trial, the dean, whose friendship she did not doubt, might re-endow him with the small benefice which was their only source of bread. The Last Chronicle of Barset
  • In 1598 Santa Isabel enjoyed the beneficence of Ana Paredes Aldrete who left the convent a rent worth 1000 maravedis a year.
  • There were many in the city who could never be persuaded that Dorothy had refused him, these being, for the most part, ladies in whose estimation the value of a husband was counted so great, and a beneficed clergyman so valuable among suitors, that it was to their thinking impossible that Dorothy Stanbury should in her sound senses have rejected such an offer. He Knew He Was Right
  • Fals-Semblant is the pope who sells benefices, the histrion, the tumbler, the juggler, the adept of the vagrant race, who goes about telling tales and helping his listeners to forget the seriousness of life. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
  • A beneficed clergyman from the most benighted, that is, most The Kellys and the O'Kellys
  • Even his book jacket photo polarizes: is that the Dark Prince leering mischievously into the camera, Andy Warhol on drugs, or a dashing rebel smiling beneficently as he prepares to smash the state? April « 2007 « Bill Ayers
  • All clergy who hoped for election to a benefice in the new constitutional Church had to take it.
  • And finally, at the end of an hour, with aching back, sweat-soaked shirt, and slaughtered hands, you are through and swinging along on the placid, beneficent tide between narrow banks where the cattle stand knee-deep and gaze wonderingly at you. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
  • This had been the first benefice bestowed on Becket by Archbishop Theobald.
  • Life on that island is marked by an uneasy tension, the juxtaposition of living surrounded by that which is at once beneficent and at the same time terribly exacting in its toll on human flesh.
  • Liberality in princes is regarded as a mark of beneficence, but when it occurs, that the homely bread of the honest and industrious is often thereby converted into delicious cates for the idle and the prodigal, we soon retract our heedless praises. An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals
  • Because of the large number of clergy, and an even larger number of laymen who flocked to Rome seeking benefices and positions in the papal court, the city's population contained a high ratio of men to women.
  • A papal nephew was appointed to a vacant canonry at Lincoln and Grosseteste refused to allow the nephew to be appointed to the benefice. 10/01/2003 - 11/01/2003
  • When we have completed the conquest of the earth, when we have discovered God's laws of matter and force and are able to keep them, it means the abolition of all unnecessary pain, unnecessary pain, I say; for all that pain which is not beneficent, which is not inherent in the nature of things, is remedial. Our Unitarian Gospel
  • One result of the centralizing of ecclesiastical administration in the Roman Curia during the course of the thirteenth century was that ecclesiastical benefices became more and more generally "collated," i.e. granted, directly by the Pope. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
  • Consumer debt has been a remarkably beneficent force in moving people into the middle class in this country over the last two or three generations.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Many beneficent projects have to be foregone if sufficient funds are lacking.
  • Cholera has been rightly called the beneficent sanitary inspector of the world. The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis
  • The rationale of the exercise was that if man performed the sacrificial rituals correctly, the devas would reciprocate by performing their cosmic function in the most beneficent way.
  • This principle is beneficence and also be used to justify restricting Ms Martin's freedom of movement.
  • But the highest victory of great power is that of self-restraint, and it would be a beneficent result of this memorable meeting, this oecumenical council of the press, if it taught us all -- the brethren of this mighty priesthood -- that mutual knowledge of each other which should modify prejudices, restrain acerbity of thought and expression, and tend in some degree to bring in that blessed time -- Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
  • An act of paternalism, in short, overrides the value of autonomous choice on grounds of beneficence. The Principle of Beneficence in Applied Ethics
  • His pluralist career was eventually brought to an end in 1560 when he was deprived of all his benefices for failing to take the oath of supremacy.
  • After a papal bull of 1558 all such former monks were ordered to return to their monasteries, under threat of losing church benefices.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • The third ground of reservation is connected with the manner in which a benefice has become vacant.
  • She yawned and relaxed and rubbed her eyes with her knuckles, took large gulps from a glass of milk, beneficent milk. BARN BLIND
  • For the journalistic mainstream, privatization - whether in Western India or Northern California - was beneficent.
  • Bel was deemed a beneficent deity, being, as Gesenius calls him {s.v. בֵּל sub בַּעַל), ’agathodemon, omnis felicitatis auctor,’ Daniel does not spare him on that account. The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study.
  • A good example of the overlap is in the popular belief that mysterious intelligent and beneficent extraterrestrial beings are visiting earthlings and floating them aboard spaceships.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,[Sentence dictionary]and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • And it fundamentally it is the government telling you how to behave and if you behave in a certain way, then the government will be beneficent enough to hand you back some money.
  • What you lose in your churchly benefices, you will make up for in war. THE FAMILY
  • Immediately after his wife's death he took minor orders as a step towards entering the priesthood, and was awarded a benefice.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • By 1280, the Church in each country had experience of the practice of papal provision, whereby the pope actually nominated candidates to benefices, including from time to time episcopal sees.
  • All chapters and other benefices without cure of souls were now abolished.
  • Beneficence --- The ethellocal principle of behaving in a way that promotes the well-being of others. See maleficence.
  • Those, indeed, who rule for the public good, are true examples and specimens of his beneficence, while those who domineer unjustly and tyrannically are raised up by him to punish the people for their iniquity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan
  • Other ordinaries say they will respond only on the basis of individual need; thus, if such a resigned priest languishes in abject poverty or grovels fittingly, he may receive some reluctant beneficence.
  • It became there - fore neceifary to degrade them, as well as to feize their enormous benefices. A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections
  • The president has battered this beneficent bureaucracy.
  • Just while this disappointment was bearing heavy on his spirits, Butler comes before his imagination — no longer the half-starved threadbare usher, but fat and sleek and fair, the beneficed minister of The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • Messer Antonio intended to make a priest of him, and in time would have inducted him into his canonry and other benefices, and all his instruction was given with this object; but The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca
  • The benefice was a very plentiful one, and placed at his disposal annually a sum of at least eight hundred dollars, of which the eighth part was more than sufficient to defray the expenses of his house and himself; the rest was devoted entirely to the purest acts of charity. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
  • All hail the beneficent spirit that motivates these historians of social ethics!
  • How happy, how joyful, had this season been, when, after the termination of the Bible studies at the _cheder_, their father had taken them for a long walk through the fields and in his own crude way had spoken of the beauties of Nature and of the wisdom and beneficence of the Creator. Rabbi and Priest A Story
  • * It is from the Dataria that bulls, rescripts, letters of appointment to benefices, and dispensations of marriage, are issued, after the affixture of the date and formula The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
  • The milder and more beneficent forces of nature were addressed as female deities and invoked with prayers.
  • His beneficence has not been unbounded and infinite; it has been bartered and exchanged for man's deeds.
  • Blame the radically altered mindset that results when killing is redefined from a moral wrong into a beneficent and legal act.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • He seems to have been first beneficed at Walsby, in Lincolnshire, through the munificence of his noble patroness, Frances, Countess Dowager of Anatomy of Melancholy
  • How to keep your independence and yet benefice from the general publishing world. Author 2.0 Survey Results - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
  • It is as though the beneficent god in which Spinoza did not believe had granted him a glimpse of the future which he is conveying to us.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Iran diplomacy had broken up and Obama in Oslo reclaimed for America the title of beneficent world garrison state. David Bromwich: Obama's Drift Toward War With Iran
  • Surely beneficence and malignance are both at play in the contemporary world, at every level.
  • The religious houses in those days were the constituted almonries of the rich and great; and through these overflowing channels, for the most part, proceeded their liberality and beneficence. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • The Rev. Augustus Horne was, at the time of my narrative, a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England. Tales of all countries
  • The Elu of Fifteen ought therefore to take the lead of his fellow-citizen, not in frivolous amusements, not in the degrading pursuits of the ambitious vulgar; but in the truly noble task of enlightening the mass of his countrymen, and of leaving his own name encircled, not with barbaric splendor, or attached to courtly gewgaws, but illustrated by the honors most worthy of our rational nature; coupled with the diffusion of knowledge, and gratefully pronounced by a few, at least, whom his wise beneficence has rescued from ignorance and vice. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
  • A benefice is elective when the appointing authority may collate only after some electoral body has named the future incumbent; presentative when such nomination belongs to a patron; collative when the bishop or other superior appoints independently of any election or presentation.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • Not from Miss Ainley's own lips did Caroline hear of her good works; but she knew much of them nevertheless; her beneficence was the familiar topic of the poor in Briarfield. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
  • It's five years to the next election, so they either will have forgotten how beneficent New Labour were or will have dropped dead.
  • I say this not just because he is a son of the great city of Shanghai - although this town has been known to have a beneficent effect on people.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • The ethical principles of non- maleficence and beneficence might be used as justification for overriding her autonomy.
  • The most normal and the most perfect human being is the one who most thoroughly addresses himself to the activity of his best powers,gives himself most thoroughly to the world around him,flings himself out into the midst of humanity,and is so preoccu pied by his own beneficent reaction on the world that he is practically unconscious of a sep arate existence... 
  • I cannot look upon the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed design of any kind in the details.
  • I am afraid," said the lady, "that this Madame Milin's beneficence is a good deal exaggerated; but come with me, and I will take care of you. A Book of Golden Deeds
  • Peoples, whose ignorance of the physical laws of nature has not been compensated by revealed teaching, have invariably personalized the forces of nature, and, feeling that their welfare depended on the beneficent exercise of these powers, have come to divinize them. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
  • The Depression and World War II fostered in the parents of baby boomers an ethos of thrift and sacrifice, along with a belief in a beneficent federal government.

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