Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers & Son · leaf 384
men, further assisted in satiating the disorderedappetites of this society, which had exhausted all the refinements of sensualityand luxury. The old world, absorbed in the worship of material things, had no tastefor the culture of the mind, and in order to arouse it from its intellectualtorpor, it… … 300 THE RELIGIOUS ORDERS. martyrdom, some shutting themselves up in a den where they could neitherstand upright nor lie down ; others lying motionless day and night upon anarrow plank, upon the top of a column, exposed to all weathers; all ofthem refusing meat, drink, and sleep, or only taking just…
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