The clerisy of a nation, that is, its learned men, whether poets, or philosophers, or scholars, are these points of relative rest.
2
But there is a certain ridicule, among superficial people, thrown on the scholars or clerisy, which is of no import, unless the scholars heed it.
3
The Popes always persecuted, with rancorous hatred, the national clerisies, the married clergy, and disliked the universities which grew out of the old monasteries.