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The temporal powers were to be instruments in his hand, subject to his supreme authority. Clerical celibacy acquired a political value; the clergy would concentrate on the glory of the Church those ambitions which made laymen seek to aggrandise their families. The collision between Rome and the emperor came quickly.
'What? after the old 'un? 'I wunna stay along of him! Vessons looked at her interestedly. Apparently she also was a devotee of his religion celibacy; one who dared to go against the explicit decrees of nature. 'I think the better of you, he said. 'So he's had his trouble for nothing, he chuckled. 'You can have my room. You shanna say Andrew Vessons inna a man of charitable nature.
Without stultifying our reason, it develops all that makes men godlike. Christ claimed that it was the only way to find out truth. To me, enforced asceticism, vows of celibacy, denunciation of pleasures innocent in themselves, intellectual monopoly of interpretation of things past or present, written or unwritten, are travesties of common sense, which is to me the Voice within.
In the article on Celibacy we notice the same temper. A few sentences are enough for the antiquarianism of the subject, what the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans thought and ordained about celibacy.
He flattered their foibles so insensibly; he commanded their affection with so gracious a dignity. Above all, what with his accomplishments, his peculiar reputation, his long celibacy, and the soft melancholy of his sentiments, he always contrived to interest them. There was not a charming woman by whom this charming man did not seem just on the point of being caught!
"I believe you, Valerie," replied Madame d'Albret, "but I should not be doing my duty if I permitted you to act upon your own feelings. A girl like you was not intended by Heaven to pine away in celibacy, but to adorn the station in life in which she is placed.
Indeed, according to all accounts, the Bohemian clergy were sorely in need of the curb: they allowed their sporting proclivities to run to excess in such pastimes as warfare, tournaments, hunting and gambling, and the law of celibacy had fallen into complete disuse. I have already noted that the St.
The ceremonies, therefore, of her consecration were duly performed; she took the vows, and bound herself by the most awful sanctions unconscious, however, perhaps, herself of what she was doing to lead thenceforth a life of absolute celibacy and seclusion.
He leaned over to give Marvell's hand the ironic grasp of celibacy. "Well, you've left us lamenting: he has, you know. Miss Spragg. But I've got one pull over the others I can paint you! He can't forbid that, can he? Not before marriage, anyhow!" Undine divided her shining glances between the two. "I guess he isn't going to treat me any different afterward," she proclaimed with joyous defiance.
But, just as the snow under the cool and quiet stars at dusk might feel full force in itself to vow to the rising moon that it will not melt, and find nevertheless of necessity when the sun appears that it cannot keep its vow, so did the idea of celibacy pass from the mind of the Rev. Henry Borthwick when Evadne began to attend his morning services.
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