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Under this system, not only one source by any
official person who could obtain favors enough in the
sight of the powers above, not only one sinecure might
be holden but any number of sinecures.
Cardinal Wolsey – who whenever he travelled, and
at whatever house he put up, saw nothing before him
behind him or on either side of him or perhaps under him but gold –
If what the number of these good things was that he
possessed chiefly in the ecclesiastical spiritual line I do not
exactly remember: some dozen at least upon a moderate
guess. There was a man who though at the Percival
catechism or as well as at any other catechism he would have
made but a sorry figure – there was a man whose
was a Percival with his one sinecure sinecure in hand and
his three others his triple prospec in prospect – there was a man
whom even a Percival might regard with an eye of envy.
Identifier: | JB/147/256/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
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