Spence-Jones, H. D. M. (Henry Donald Maurice), 1836-1917, Railton, Herbert, 1857-1910, ill, Quinton, A., ill · London : Isbister & company, limited · leaf 19
n—an array ofstately buildings and sacredsocieties such as the world hadnever seen before and willprobably never see again.*Men, many of them noble bybirth, rich and powerful, over-whelmed by the sight of thegreat misery around them, devoted themselves and theirlives to relieving, as best they… … From the IVeslfront of Wells Cathedral, if r^j AN IDEAL MONK. 5 neighbours, to lifting- this burden of the unspeakable woethey had brought on the land they had conquered. Themonastic orders in these reigns attained, perhaps, theirloftiest ideal, and did right noble work in their generation.They…
Abbeys · Monasticism and religious orders
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