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When the young priest and M. de Guersaint got outside they were astonished at the loud pealing of bells which was flying through the air. The parish church had responded to the first stroke of vespers chiming at the Basilica; and now all the convents, one after another, were contributing to the swelling peals.
For all moral beauty is achieved in this world through the inconceivable wisdom that comes from God and resembles folly." "I shall not discourage you, Monsieur Choulette. But I am anxious about the fate which you reserve for the poor women in your new society. You will imprison them all in convents." "I confess," replied Choulette, "that they embarrass me a great deal in my project of reform.
Jean d'Acre Caesarea Excursion among the ruins Jaffa An eastern family The Indian fig-tree An Oriental dinner Costume of the women of Jaffa Oppressive heat Gnats Ramla Syrian convents Bedouins and Arabs Kariet el Areb, or Emmaus The Scheikh Arrival at Jerusalem. May 25th. This morning I could discern the Syrian coast, which becomes more glorious the nearer we approach.
We passed by the former home of the Jeronomite monks of the Parral, which was once called an earthly paradise, and in later years has been a pen for swine; past crumbling convents and ruined churches; past the charming Romanesque San Millan, girdled with its round-arched cloisters; the granite palace of his Reverence the Bishop of Segovia, and the elegant tower of St.
Some fell off like nipped blossoms in their infancy; convents and wars absorbed the rest, till only the eldest two were left of all that numerous family to perpetuate the name of Poole, and raise the fortunes of the race.
In the flourishing times of the Inquisition, this business of inveigling choice victims into convents was more profitable, for then murmuring could be crushed into silence, and parents dreaded to oppose the wretched pimps of superstition who came to inveigle their daughters into convents. The Quaker prison of Philadelphia is a paradise compared with such a place as this.
It is true they do not belong to a contemplative order, but all the same their rules are very strict, their existence is so hard that they too can atone by their prayers and good works for the crimes of the city they protect." He grew enthusiastic in thinking of the convents.
Ludwig I., through a sentimental love of the picturesque, had encouraged the multiplication of monasteries and convents and brotherhoods of wandering friars, and Maximilian, though naturally tolerant, and still more liberalized by the influence of his Protestant queen, was a firm believer in the divine right of kings; and having joined hands with the clerical party in putting down the revolution of 1848, found himself afterward so far compromised in their behalf that he was unable to oppose their aggrandizing plans; so that in his reign the priests, and especially the Jesuits, attained to a greater degree of power than they had ever before known.
Would so many women go into convents and call Christ their bridegroom, if it were not so? But what is the name of this lady who has been pleased to fall in love with me?" "Sire, I believe, the only condition she stipulated was that your majesty should not ask for her name." The emperor frowned. "And you would persuade me to receive this nameless woman?
Other orders have several times attempted to form establishments in Chili, but have always been resisted by the inhabitants. There are several convents of nuns in the cities of St Jago and Conception, but none are contained in the other cities of the kingdom.
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