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Cooper makes clear that the authority of the Episcopal divines is more tenuous than the authority of law, embodied in Judge Temple.

Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper 2006

And as the said Bateman, with all his want of common sense, was really a well-informed man, and well read in English divines, he thought he might incidentally hear something from him which he could turn to account.

Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert John Henry Newman 1845

Their divines will be the worst people under the Heaven; strife will issue from them and avert to them.

Harris Zafar: Demystifying The Second Coming Harris Zafar 2011

Their divines will be the worst people under the Heaven; strife will issue from them and avert to them.

Harris Zafar: Demystifying The Second Coming Harris Zafar 2011

Ecclesiastique, tom.i. p. 223, tom.ii. p. 366, and Mosheim, p. 720; though the latter of these learned divines is not altogether candid on this occasion.] 67 In the council of Laodicea,

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Why is it, for example, that the influence of the Boston Recorder and New-York Observer -- why is it, that the influence of most of our titled divines -- is decidedly hostile to the abolition of slavery?

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

Why is it, for example, that the influence of the Boston Recorder and New-York Observer -- why is it, that the influence of most of our titled divines -- is decidedly hostile to the abolition of slavery?

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

Reply Obj. 1: According to the Philosopher (Ethic. i, 2) the common good of the nation is a divine thing, wherefore in olden times the rulers of a commonwealth were called divines, as being the ministers of divine providence, according to Wis.

Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas

The emperor does not hesitate to call the divines to account when they enunciate doctrines of which he does not approve, and whereas in former reigns a court chaplaincy was regarded in the light of an office for life, it is now considered as a merely temporary appointment, so frequent are the dismissals.

The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe Fontenoy, Mme La Marquise De 1900

My work has been to restore a buried literature, and recall divines from their hair-splittings to a knowledge of the New Testament.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885