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  • High-church Anglicans who become Roman Catholics may discover that they traded down rather than up.

    Pink Collars For Anglicans 2008

  • She was instantly alarmed, however, by the effect which her news produced upon her young lady, an effect rendered doubly violent by the High-church principles and prejudices in which Miss Bellenden had been educated.

    Old Mortality 2004

  • High-church, having been early taught to entertain the most supercillous contempt for Dissenters of all denominations.

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

  • The Earl of Mar had openly espoused the High-church party in the case of

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

  • A High-church English divine, who had met me half an hour before and had hastened to spare me future heartaches by explaining at once that he was married, rose abruptly from his chair beside me and wobbled uncertainly to the deck-rail, where he hung suspended in an attitude of pathetic resignation.

    Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

  • In these he showed a spirit much like that which used to be common among High-church Episcopalians in speaking of Low-church ` ` Evangelicals. ''

    [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

  • The point of this lay in the fact that among the charges constantly made by the High-church party against Whately was that of secret Unitarianism.

    [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

  • She was one of the most conservative of women, a High-church Episcopalian, and gen-erally averse to modern reforms; but on my talking over with her some of my plans for Cornell University, she said: ` ` I am not so sure about your other ideas, but as to the admission of women you are right.

    Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

  • He is a High-church clergyman to a highly fashionable congregation.

    Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Langdon Elwyn Mitchell 1898

  • By a suicidal compact the guileless Evangelical party agreed, in 1835, to take direction of the foreign missions of the church, and leave the home field under the direction of the aggressive High-church party.

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

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