monkeries

Syria, ever “feracious of heresies,” had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. 320 After many a tentative measure Mohammed seems to have built his edifice upon two bases, the unity of the Godhead and the priesthood of the pater-familias.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

These monkeries were established in the land by virtue of civil authority.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

The optimistic harmony which the English philosopher, coming after Leibnitz, assumed as the starting-point of his ethical and religious ideas, was not only highly congenial to Diderot's sanguine temperament; it was a most attractive way of escape from the disorderly and confused theological wilderness of sin, asceticism, miracle, and the other monkeries.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

He was not an ascetic, then or later; and he was writing a dramatic poem; and, of course, had no difficulty in giving Comus a fine speech about the follies of total abstinence which, indeed, he loved no better than other monkeries.

Milton John Cann Bailey 1897

There was sanctuary in those times, in the monkeries -- and the churches, where the soldiers of the king dared not go, for fear of

The Rising of the Court Henry Lawson 1894

It soon transpired that the eclipse had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping poor creatures who thought the end of the world was come.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

In reply to some excellent members of the Romish Church, who have publicly accused me of maligning holy women and sacred retreats, my obvious answer is that I contend against the evil side both of nunneries and monkeries, whilst I may fairly admit some good to be found in both.

My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886

Yet Diderot had far too much genius to be tempted into the exaggerations of more vulgar assailants of monkeries and nunneries.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

English philosopher, coming after Leibnitz, assumed as the starting-point of his ethical and religious ideas, was not only highly congenial to Diderot's sanguine temperament; it was a most attractive way of escape from the disorderly and confused theological wilderness of sin, asceticism, miracle, and the other monkeries.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880

It soon transpired that the eclipse had scared the British world almost to death; that while it lasted the whole country, from one end to the other, was in a pitiable state of panic, and the churches, hermitages, and monkeries overflowed with praying and weeping poor creatures who thought the end of the world was come.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872