...maintained their status as administrators of pauper relief, though tied down by no definite rules, and amid the huts of a miserable peasantry and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, they served in their religious retreats to mitigate the inequalities of fortune, and prevented society...

...now extinct, had piled up buildings which would never be dissolved till the judgment day (Macaulay). Had not such retreats been scattered here and there, among the huts of a miserable peasantry . . ., European society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey (id.). The...

...could employ himself in transcribing the JEneid of Virgil, and another in meditating on the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrolopy or carve a crucifix, and in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments...

...could employ himself in transcribing the ./,'.-;--/ of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle; in which he who had a genius for art...experiments on the properties of plants and minerals." We do well, I think, to keep these wise words of our brilliant essayist in mind. Although more than...

...could employ himself in transcribing the ^Eneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, and in 30 which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments on the properties of plants...

...could employ himself in transcribing the /Eneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...ferocious aristocracy, European society would have con- 6 sisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey. The Church has many times been compared...

...commission of a crime, could fly and claim protection. "Had not such retreats," says Lord Macaulay, " been scattered here and there, among the huts of a...miserable peasantry, and the castles of a ferocious autocracy, European society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey." No...

...could employ himself in transcribing the YEneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...retreats been scattered here and there, among the nuts of a miserable peasantry, and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, European society would have...

...could employ himself in transcribing the Eneid of Virgil and another in meditating on the Analytics of Aristotle ; in which he who had a genius for art,...minerals. Had not such retreats been scattered here and thereamong the huts of the miserablepeasantry, and the castles of the ferocious aristocracy, European...

...could employ himself in transcribing the ^Eneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...might illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, arid in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments on the properties of...