Citations:monachism

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English citations of monachism

  • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. XI, The Abbot’s Ways
    A sorrowful waste of noble wood and umbrage! Yes, — but a very common one; the course of most things in this world. Monachism itself, so rich and fruitful once, is now all rotted into peat; lies sleek and buried, — and a most feeble bog-grass of Dilettantism all the crop we reap from it! That also was frightful waste […]
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