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• The learned professions, or black arts, lost at least ninety-five per cent in importance; and so rapid as been the increase of the evil, that, at this time of day, it is a hard matter to impose on any clodpole in Europe! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
• Many members of the learned professions display great felicity of illustration and fluency of elocution, surprising us with the quickness of their parts, who nevertheless are felt to be neither impressive nor profound.
• Why should an auctioneer and appraiser thirty years ago, who had as good as forgotten his free-school Latin, be expected to manifest a delicate scrupulosity which is not always exhibited by gentlemen of the learned professions, even in our present advanced stage of morality? III. Mr. Riley Gives His Advice Concerning a School for Tom. Book I—Boy and Girl
• Besides muderrises and kadis, one other group within the learned profession deserves brief mention, namely the muftis.
• At length the physician and surgeon arrived, and I know not why the learned professions should impose on us more by one exterior than another; but I own, when I saw the physician appear in a white camblet coat, lined with rose colour, and the surgeon with dirty linen, and a gold button and loop to his hat, I began to tremble for my friend. A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners
• Besides muderrises and kadis, one other group within the learned profession deserves brief mention, namely the muftis.