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... period consisted chiefly of lay- members , a considerable proportion of whom were females . Nor was woman's presence a source of embarrassment , or an occasion of scandal , in these colonies of austere ascetics , in days when no edict ...
... period consisted chiefly of lay- members , a considerable proportion of whom were females . Nor was woman's presence a source of embarrassment , or an occasion of scandal , in these colonies of austere ascetics , in days when no edict ...
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... period . A cross , ' says the Count de Montalembert of this period , ' raised in the middle of a field , was enough to satisfy the devotion of the thane , his ploughman , and shepherds . They ga- thered round it for public and daily ...
... period . A cross , ' says the Count de Montalembert of this period , ' raised in the middle of a field , was enough to satisfy the devotion of the thane , his ploughman , and shepherds . They ga- thered round it for public and daily ...
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... periods of leisure , when , through want of occupation , they might become an easy prey to diabolical influences . Nor Spent in the painful discharge of duties , to many of which we attach notions of servility and degradation , the ...
... periods of leisure , when , through want of occupation , they might become an easy prey to diabolical influences . Nor Spent in the painful discharge of duties , to many of which we attach notions of servility and degradation , the ...
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... period which time has clothed with mist and silence . There stands the Gothic minster , on ground once occupied by a Saxon cathedral ; and hard by its majestic towers , and lines of pointed windows , is visible the bishop's palace ...
... period which time has clothed with mist and silence . There stands the Gothic minster , on ground once occupied by a Saxon cathedral ; and hard by its majestic towers , and lines of pointed windows , is visible the bishop's palace ...
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... period when Christianity was still only an experiment , and its adherents had no adequate organisation for giving practical expression to their principles in a society composed of conflict- ing elements , and recognising no finer rule ...
... period when Christianity was still only an experiment , and its adherents had no adequate organisation for giving practical expression to their principles in a society composed of conflict- ing elements , and recognising no finer rule ...
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Page 357 - Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village. A...
Page 202 - Thus this brook has conveyed his ashes into, Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; and thus the ashes of Wickliffe are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all the world over.
Page 357 - The parson is always preaching at the squire, and the squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists and tithe-stealers ; while the parson instructs them every Sunday in the dignity of his order, and insinuates to them in almost every sermon that he is a better man than his patron. In short, matters are come to such an extremity that the squire has not said his prayers either in...
Page 263 - To whom the good man replied, "My dear George, if Saints have usually a double share in the miseries of this life, I, that am none, ought not to repine at what my wise Creator hath appointed for me: but labour — as indeed -I do daily — to submit mine to his will, and possess my soul in patience and peace.
Page 358 - In short, matters are come to such an extremity, that the squire has not said his prayers either in public or private this half-year; and that the parson threatens him, if he does not mend his manners, to pray for him in the face of the whole congregation.
Page 274 - You are now a minister's wife, and must now so far forget your father's house, as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners; for you are to know that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place, but that which she purchaseth by her obliging humility; and I am sure, places so purchased do best become them.
Page 357 - ... squire, who live in a perpetual state of war. The parson is always preaching at the squire, and the squire, to be revenged on the parson, never comes to church. The squire has made all his tenants atheists...
Page 133 - I stonde lyk a clerk in my pulpet, And whan the lewed peple is doun yset, I preche so as ye han herd bifoore, And telle an hundred false japes moore.
Page 264 - My lord, when I lost the freedom of my cell, which was my college, yet I found some degree of it in my quiet country parsonage ; but I am weary of the noise and oppositions of this place, and indeed God and nature did not intend me for contentions, but for study and quietness.
Page 202 - For though they digged up his body, burned his bones, and drowned his ashes, yet the word of God and truth of his doctrine, with the fruit and success thereof, they could not burn, which yet TO THIS DAY, for the most part of his articles, do remain, notwithstanding the transitory body and bones of the man were thus consumed and dispersed.