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In the year A.D. 270 Anthony, an Egyptian, the father of monasticism, fixed his abode in the deserts of Egypt and formed monks into organized bodies. Dowling, describing the extravagance of monkery and the false standard of piety and holiness it created, declares that monkery "actually affected the church universal." See History of Romanism, pp. 88, 89. Very few marks of genuine piety remained.
"Not for us, Thompson, and not for him, either, if he saw things just right. They're good for scrubs; but they don't pay well enough for us, and if he wants them he can have them at that price about the middle of October." The credit account for the second quarter of 1898 stood: 23 calves . . . . . $270.00 Eggs . . . . . . 637.00 Butter . . . . . . 1314.00 Total. . . . . . $2221.00
This was to lead the owners of the tickets, and the betters generally, not to attach a high value to the numbers below 270. By doing this, they expected to depress the value of these tickets in the general estimation, so that they could buy then easily.
Nor will the stereotyped Philistine argument that the laxity of divorce laws and the growing looseness of woman account for the fact that: first, every twelfth marriage ends in divorce; second, that since 1870 divorces have increased from 28 to 73 for every hundred thousand population; third, that adultery, since 1867, as ground for divorce, has increased 270.8 per cent.; fourth, that desertion increased 369.8 per cent.
Brocklesby to the last Academy dinner, when, as he boasted, 'he went up all the stairs to the pictures without stopping to rest or to breathe. Ante, p. 270, note 2. Quid te exempta levat spinis de pluribus una? 'Pluck out one thorn to mitigate thy pain, What boots it while so many more remain? FRANCIS. Horace, 2 Epistles, ii. 212. See ante, iii. 4, note 2. Sir Joshua's physician.
Reader, what was the condition of the so-called church in A.D. 270 that could make the introduction of such abominations possible? Although many more historical quotations on this point might be added, I will conclude with the two following extracts from Joseph Milner.
"This discovery is one of much interest, proving the relationship of the insect to be amongst the pupivora, to which family it had been previously assigned by Mr. Transactions page 270.
Each hog turned out from my piggery weighing 270 pounds or more, has eaten of my substance not less than 500 pounds of grain, 250 pounds of chopped alfalfa, 250 pounds of roots or vegetables, and such quantities of skimmed milk and swill as have fallen to his share. I could reckon the approximate cost of these foods, but I will not do so.
Prose Works, vol. xviii. p. 270. See note 1, p. 387. Merry Wives, Act I. Sc. 1. The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton, by Captain Thomas Hamilton, had just been published anonymously. Mr. Lockhart adds the following lines: "The shade of youthful hope is there, That lingered long, and latest died; Ambitions all dissolved to air, With phantom honours by his side. "What empty shadows glimmer nigh?
The fire of the natural sun exists from no other source than from the fire of the spiritual sun, which is divine love, 380. SUPPERS. In heaven, as in the world, there are suppers, 19. See Deceased. SWANS, in the spiritual world, signify conjugial love in the lowest region of the mind, 270.
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