 | 1872 - 890 sayfa
...part of his life on a pillar sixty feet high ; or, like St. Anthony, the patriarch of monachism, he had never, in extreme old age, been guilty of washing his feet — he was thought to have reached the ideal of human excellence, and was canonised as a saint ; more... | |
 | 1893 - 840 sayfa
...and Cicero, and the lives of Socrates and Cato. . . . The cleanliness of the body was regarded as the pollution of the soul, and the saints who were most...admired had become one hideous mass of clotted filth." To borrow but one or two illustrations from the "History of European Morals," St. Athanasius relates... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1869 - 446 sayfa
...March 29.) St. Mary of Egypt, during part of her period of penance, lived upon grass. ( Vila Patrum.) cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution...never, in extreme old age, been guilty of washing his feet.1 The less constant St. Pcemen fell into this habit for the first time when a very old man, and,... | |
 | Henry Maudsley - 1873 - 388 sayfa
...part of his life on a pillar sixty feet high ; or, like St. Anthony, the patriarch of monachism, he had never, in extreme old age, been guilty of washing his feet — he was thought to have reached the ideal of human excellence, and was canonized as a saint. More... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1890 - 434 sayfa
...nor bread, but who spent their time for ever on the mountain side, and ate grass like cattle.5 The cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution...mass of clotted filth. St. Athanasius relates with enthui ' II y eut dans le desert de Presbyter enim tune veniebat ad Scete des solitaires d'une eminente... | |
 | 1891 - 312 sayfa
...part of his life on a pillar sixty feet high ; or like St. Anthony, the patriarch of monachism, he had never, in extreme old age, been guilty of washing his feet — he was thought to have reached the ideal of human excellence, and was canonized as a saint. More... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1897 - 432 sayfa
...nor bread, but who spent their time for ever on the mountain side, and ate grass like cattle.8 The cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution...mass of clotted filth. St. Athanasius relates with enthu1 ' II y ent dans le desert de Presbyter enim tune veniebat ad Scete des solitaires d'une eminente... | |
 | William Joseph Flagg - 1898 - 404 sayfa
...flesh nor bread, but spent their time forever on the mountain side, and ate grass like cattle. The cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution...admired had become one hideous mass of clotted filth." The women were no neater than the men, as witness famous Saint Sylvia, who was such a devoted slut... | |
 | Tighe Hopkins - 1899 - 304 sayfa
...models of religion continued in honour through all the feudal ages, when (to quote Mr. Lecky again) "the cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution...admired had become one hideous mass of clotted filth." The ideal of the Church in mediaeval France was not quite so deplorable as this, but it was bad enough;... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1908 - 914 sayfa
...be made of rags taken from a dust or refuse heap.4 In the early days of Christian monasticism " the cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution of the soul." The saints who were most admired were those who had become one hideous mass of clotted filth. St. Athanasius... | |
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The cleanliness of the body was regarded as a pollution of the soul. And the saints who were most admired had become one hideous mass of clotted filth. 
