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An Account Of The Monks,
and the cold of as many winters . Habit and exercise ™ t . uctel him to maintain his dangerous situation without fear or gtddmess and successively to assume the different postures of ttevotion . He sometimes pravedin an erect attitude with ms out stretched aims , in the figure of a . cross ; but his most familiar practice wis th . it of bending his meagre skeleton from the forehead to the feet an a twelve Hundred and / -iour
curious spectator , after numbering ™ r repetitions , at length desisted from the endless account rhe progress of an ulcer in his thig h might shorten , but it could no distuib this celestial life ; and the patient Hermit expired , wuiiout descending from his column . A prince , who should . capriciously inflict would be deemed a tyrant but it would surpass the
such tortures , ; aower of a tyrant , to impos e a long and miserable existence on the reluctant ' victims of his cruelty . This voluntary martyrdom must have gradually destroyed the . sensibility both of the mind and bodv ; nor can it be presumed that the fanatics , who torment themselve .. are susceptible of any lively affection for the rest of mankind . cruel temper has distinguished the monks of every age
A unfeeling and countrv : their stern indifference , which is seldom mollified by personal friendship , is inflamed by religious hatred ; and their merciless zeal has strenuously administered the holy office of the 3 nquisitiona
Description Of Pompey's Pillar
DESCRIPTION OF POMPEY ' s PILLAR
¦ IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ALEXANDRIA , IN EGYPT ; WITH AN ANECDOTE OF SOME ENGLISH SEA OFFICERS THERE . Y N the afternoon a large party of us sallied out to take a view of Pillarthe theme of the present and tne
admira-II Pompey ' s , age , tion of past ' times ! Besides my companions and myself , we were ioined by two English commanders of the ships in the harbour , and Monsieur Meillon , and some young gentlemen-of the Frenchfactory We mounted the first asses that presented themselves for hire and attended by our Janizary , took the course we pursued yesterday We left the convent on our right , and presently came which the remains
arnono- broken arches and long pavements , are of an aqueduct . Several towers reared up their dismantled neads on each side of us , whose appearance pronounces them to haye been posts of < -reat importance and strength . A number of stately pillars next engaged our attention . They are placed in two parallel lines , and seem to have formerly supported some magnificent Thebaic marbleand about
portico . The pillars are of granite , or , thirty feet hio-h , of a single stone ; and we counted no less than thirty of them still standing . But however choice these column A
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An Account Of The Monks,
and the cold of as many winters . Habit and exercise ™ t . uctel him to maintain his dangerous situation without fear or gtddmess and successively to assume the different postures of ttevotion . He sometimes pravedin an erect attitude with ms out stretched aims , in the figure of a . cross ; but his most familiar practice wis th . it of bending his meagre skeleton from the forehead to the feet an a twelve Hundred and / -iour
curious spectator , after numbering ™ r repetitions , at length desisted from the endless account rhe progress of an ulcer in his thig h might shorten , but it could no distuib this celestial life ; and the patient Hermit expired , wuiiout descending from his column . A prince , who should . capriciously inflict would be deemed a tyrant but it would surpass the
such tortures , ; aower of a tyrant , to impos e a long and miserable existence on the reluctant ' victims of his cruelty . This voluntary martyrdom must have gradually destroyed the . sensibility both of the mind and bodv ; nor can it be presumed that the fanatics , who torment themselve .. are susceptible of any lively affection for the rest of mankind . cruel temper has distinguished the monks of every age
A unfeeling and countrv : their stern indifference , which is seldom mollified by personal friendship , is inflamed by religious hatred ; and their merciless zeal has strenuously administered the holy office of the 3 nquisitiona
Description Of Pompey's Pillar
DESCRIPTION OF POMPEY ' s PILLAR
¦ IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ALEXANDRIA , IN EGYPT ; WITH AN ANECDOTE OF SOME ENGLISH SEA OFFICERS THERE . Y N the afternoon a large party of us sallied out to take a view of Pillarthe theme of the present and tne
admira-II Pompey ' s , age , tion of past ' times ! Besides my companions and myself , we were ioined by two English commanders of the ships in the harbour , and Monsieur Meillon , and some young gentlemen-of the Frenchfactory We mounted the first asses that presented themselves for hire and attended by our Janizary , took the course we pursued yesterday We left the convent on our right , and presently came which the remains
arnono- broken arches and long pavements , are of an aqueduct . Several towers reared up their dismantled neads on each side of us , whose appearance pronounces them to haye been posts of < -reat importance and strength . A number of stately pillars next engaged our attention . They are placed in two parallel lines , and seem to have formerly supported some magnificent Thebaic marbleand about
portico . The pillars are of granite , or , thirty feet hio-h , of a single stone ; and we counted no less than thirty of them still standing . But however choice these column A