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benefices involved no duties either lay
236 It seems strange that one-half of the nation should have been so long content to be excluded from participation in the prizes of pure scholarship, when the possession of these, unlike the enjoyment of livings and benefices, involved no duties either lay or cleric.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

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