The Golden Age of the ChurchSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1906 - 446 pages |
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Ammianus Ammianus Marcellinus ancient Antony ascetic Athanasius Ausonius austerity barbarian Basil beautiful became Benedict Bishop Byzantine Caesarius Caesarius of Arles capital Cassian centre Christ Christian Christian city Chrysostom Church citizens Claudian coloured Columban Constantinople Crusaders devoted early earnest Eastern emperor famous fifth century founder fourth century Gaul Greek Gregory Gregory Nazianzus Gregory of Nazianzus heart historian hundred imperial influence Italy Jerome Justinian largely Latin learning letters literary literature lived loved Macrobius Martin of Tours master mighty monasteries monastic monasticism monks Nazianzus noble old pagan Order Pachomius painted Paulinus Paulinus of Nola period picture poet poetry popular possessed prayer provinces Pulcheria ranks Reformation reign religion of Jesus religious houses Roman society Roman world Rome Rule sacred saintly scholars senators slave Solitaries splendid story strange Symmachus teachers teaching Theodore the Studite Theodosius vast well-nigh West Western women words writings
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Page 283 - They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind.
Page 306 - I long that the husbandman should sing portions of them to himself as he follows the plough, that the weaver should hum them to the tune of his shuttle, that the traveller should beguile with their stories the tedium of his journey.
Page 148 - ... the boastful servility of obedience : then the fame for piety, the lavish offerings of the faithful, the grants of the repentant lord, the endowments of the remorseful king — the opulence, the power, the magnificence. The wattled hut, the rock-hewn hermitage, is now the stately cloister ; the lowly church of wood the lofty and gorgeous abbey ; the wild forest or heath the pleasant and umbrageous grove; the marsh a domain of intermingling meadow and corn-fields ; the brawling stream or mountain...
Page 283 - In the revolution of ten centuries, not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity, and a succession of patient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic beauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation.
Page 35 - God to Egypt. For who in grief met Antony and did not return rejoicing? Who came mourning for his dead and did not forthwith put off his sorrow? Who came in anger and was not converted to friendship? What poor and low-spirited man met him who, hearing him and looking upon him, did not despise wealth and console himself in his poverty? What monk, having been neglectful, came to him and became not all the stronger?
Page 51 - To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some.
Page 133 - It is a counterfeit of Paradise, where the gentleness and purity of heaven appear already to be reflected. In the midst of the fens rise groves of trees which seem to touch the stars with their tall and slender tops ; the charmed eye wanders over a sea of verdant herbage, the foot which treads the wide meadows meets with no obstacle in its path. Not an inch of land as far as the eye can reach lies uncultivated. Here the soil is hidden by fruit trees ; there by vines stretched upon the ground or trailed...
Page 304 - Garden of the Greeks, I am gathering much fruit by ' the way for the time to come, which may hereafter be ' of use to me in sacred studies. For I have learned ' this by experience, that without Greek one can do ' nothing in any branch of study ; for it is one thing ' to conjecture, and quite another thing to judge—one ' thing to see with other people's eyes, and quite an' other thing to believe what you see with your own, ' But to what a length this letter has grown!
Page 36 - He kept vigil to such an extent that he often continued the whole night without sleep, and this not once but often, to the marvel of others. He ate once a day, after sunset, sometimes once in two days, and often even in four. His food was bread and salt, his drink, water only. Of flesh and wine it is superfluous even to speak, since no such thing was found with the other earnest men. A rush mat served him to sleep upon, but for the most part he lay upon the bare ground. He would not anoint himself...