From Hell (of which the silly people of the Country think the top of this hill to be the mouth).

to bull railroad bonds

To sophisticates across the river, Vancouver is “Vantucky,” a place that doesn’t share their tastes in microbreweries, organic dining and public transit (traits skewered for their whiff of smugness in the “Portlandia” television series)...For years, most of the development has been in the suburbs, from ranch-style tract homes to McMansions. Leavitt embraced the bridge plan, in part, as a way to end the Vantucky punchlines.

When, however, it is quite undeniable that the vast body of the clergy of the Establishment, with very few isolated exceptions,—such exceptions must always obtrude themselves while the world is a fallen world,—are energetically pursuing their sacred calling as the pastors of all the parishes; when it is matter, and increasingly, of daily notice, that they are diligently seeking the highest welfare of the flocks committed to their care; that they are doing this studiously, learnèdly, prayerfully, devotedly, “in labours, in watchings, in much patience; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness; by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned; by the Word of Truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left; through honour and dishonour, through evil report and good report:”[…]