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On Retirement.
common sense ; his mind , by superficial observers , might be reproached with the horrid epithet of Misanthrope . No ! Rosseau glowed with the noblest warmth of a man and a philosopher , he equally exchanged his rights and duties , and wished no greater sacrifices from another than he granted to them ; disgusted with the unmeaning , and insincere compliments of the trifling coteries in fashionable '
life , nothing was more gratifying to him than to be freed from them ; his ' predominating passion was for unlimited freedom , personal and moral ; in point of divinity he affected the better to suit the temper of the times , whether that was assumed or sentimental is ' not to be discussed here , certain it is that he was a great philosopher , an accurate reasoner , a man of the most liberal sentiments , and a strenuous advocate for personal and political freedom .
An Account Of The Monks,
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MONKS ,
THEIR SOLITUDE , DEVOTION , VISIONS , fife" !
WE think it will not be uninteresting to relate the manner in which the primitive Monks spent their irksome and solitary hours in the dreary cells of a sequestered convent , in which they employed themselves either in vocal or mental prayer : they assembled in the evening , and they were awakened in the night , for the public worshiof the monastery . The precise moment was
p . determined by the stars , which are seldom clouded in the serene sky of Egypt ; and a rustic horn or trumpet , the signal of devotion , twice interrupted the vast silence of the desert . Even sleep , the last refuge of the unhappy , was rigorously measured : the vacant hours of the monk heavily rolled along , without business or pleasure andbefore the close of each dayhe had repeatedly accused
; , , the tedious progress of the Sun . In this comfortless state , superstition still pursued and tormented her wretched votaries . The repose which they had sought in the cloister was disturbed by tardy repentance , profane doubts , and guilty desires ; and , while they considered each natural impulse as an unpardonable sin , they perpetually trembled on the edge of a flaming and bottomless
abyss . From the painful struggles of disease and despair , these unhappy victims were sometimes relieved by madness or death ; and , in the sixth century , an hospital was founded at Jerusalem for a small portion of the austere penitents , who were deprived of their senses . Their visions , before they attained this extreme and acknowledged term of frenzy , have afforded ample materials of
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On Retirement.
common sense ; his mind , by superficial observers , might be reproached with the horrid epithet of Misanthrope . No ! Rosseau glowed with the noblest warmth of a man and a philosopher , he equally exchanged his rights and duties , and wished no greater sacrifices from another than he granted to them ; disgusted with the unmeaning , and insincere compliments of the trifling coteries in fashionable '
life , nothing was more gratifying to him than to be freed from them ; his ' predominating passion was for unlimited freedom , personal and moral ; in point of divinity he affected the better to suit the temper of the times , whether that was assumed or sentimental is ' not to be discussed here , certain it is that he was a great philosopher , an accurate reasoner , a man of the most liberal sentiments , and a strenuous advocate for personal and political freedom .
An Account Of The Monks,
AN ACCOUNT OF THE MONKS ,
THEIR SOLITUDE , DEVOTION , VISIONS , fife" !
WE think it will not be uninteresting to relate the manner in which the primitive Monks spent their irksome and solitary hours in the dreary cells of a sequestered convent , in which they employed themselves either in vocal or mental prayer : they assembled in the evening , and they were awakened in the night , for the public worshiof the monastery . The precise moment was
p . determined by the stars , which are seldom clouded in the serene sky of Egypt ; and a rustic horn or trumpet , the signal of devotion , twice interrupted the vast silence of the desert . Even sleep , the last refuge of the unhappy , was rigorously measured : the vacant hours of the monk heavily rolled along , without business or pleasure andbefore the close of each dayhe had repeatedly accused
; , , the tedious progress of the Sun . In this comfortless state , superstition still pursued and tormented her wretched votaries . The repose which they had sought in the cloister was disturbed by tardy repentance , profane doubts , and guilty desires ; and , while they considered each natural impulse as an unpardonable sin , they perpetually trembled on the edge of a flaming and bottomless
abyss . From the painful struggles of disease and despair , these unhappy victims were sometimes relieved by madness or death ; and , in the sixth century , an hospital was founded at Jerusalem for a small portion of the austere penitents , who were deprived of their senses . Their visions , before they attained this extreme and acknowledged term of frenzy , have afforded ample materials of