Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
Our considering mere retirement, therefore, as a symptom of moderation and of virtue, is either a remnant of that system, under which monks and anchorets, in former ages, have been canonized; or proceeds from a habit of thinking, which appears equally fraught with moral corruption, from our considering public life as a scene for the gratification of mere vanity, avarice, and ambition; never as furnishing the best opportunity for a just and a happy engagement of the mind and the heart.
As they come to revere their intuitions and aspire to live holily, their own piety explains every fact, every word. How easily these old worships of Moses, of Zoroaster, of Menu, of Socrates, domesticate themselves in the mind. I cannot find any antiquity in them. They are mine as much as theirs. I have seen the first monks and anchorets, without crossing seas or centuries.
Never had such heat been known in those regions; but the people did not murmur, for with the cessation of the rain their crops were saved and the pestilence banished; and these mercies they ascribed in great part to the prayers and macerations of the two holy anchorets.
'A saint, repeated the lady. 'Anchorets are always saints. What doth he? 'Prayeth, answered Simon. 'Never doth a man come in but he is at his prayers. 'Tis always one hour or another! 'Ay? said Sir Lancelot, interrogatively. 'Sayest thou so? Is he an old man? Simon put in his word before Hal could speak: 'Men get so knocked about in these wars that there's no guessing their age.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking