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...ies were being laden. Mass was to be heard at the first halting-place, the Benedictine nunnery of T refontana on Lammermuir, where Lilias Drummond was... ...he probability that they would never meet again, for how should a Scottish Benedictine nun and the wife of a French seigneur ever come together? nor w... ...trict con- vents. The Mother, Margaret Stafford, was a great lady, and the Benedictines of the old foundation of St. Helen’s in the midst of the capit... ...aughters, would have been surprised to be told that they had departed from Benedictine simplicity. So the Prioress’s chamber was tapestried above with... ...sters.’ ‘They do a holy work,’ observed Lady Lilias. ‘None ever blamed the Benedictines for lack of alms-deeds,’ returned the Prioress haughtily, scar... ...ble, as being actually the strait course; but the young maid- ens were not scholars enough to question it, and Dame Lilias, though she had learnt more...

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...he Saturday, at seven o’clock in the evening, in the church of the English Benedictines at Paris, Rue St. Jacques, without pomp, and attended by but f... ...that they pronounced in favour of the deed, and that Father Mabillon, that Benedictine so well known through- out all Europe by his sense and his cand... ... M. de Beauvilliers had expressed a wish to be buried at Montargis, in the Benedictine monastery, where eight of his daughters had become nuns. Madame... ...inalship; his brother, who for ten years had been Bishop of T erracine and Benedictine monk of Mount Cassini. Dubois had expected that no promotion wo... ...ious building erected there for more than a hundred Jesuits and numberless scholars. A church was there nearly finished, of rotunda shape, of a grande... ...er of their monasteries and their riches, are in Spain much about what the Benedictines are in France, and like them are a congregation. They elect al...

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...for his recovery of his father’s throne from the usurper Donaldbane, was a Benedictine monastery under the dominion of the great central Abbey of Durh... ... But Prior Akecliff gave him no more encouragement than did his uncle. The Benedictine vows were out of the question till he should be eighteen, and t... ...ury friend, Earl Tyneman, as you call him, at home.’ ‘’Tis ill keeping the scholars in bounds when the master is away,’ returned Sir James. ‘Well, by ... ...ount, and the ranks of the reli- gious orders were chiefly filled, the old Benedictine and Au- gustinian foundations by gentlemen of good family who w... ...tion; and though a master taught all the book-learning in the busy hive of scholars— eighty in number—one or more of them instructed the little 87 Yo... ...nded by entreating that the almoner would at once hear his vow to become a Benedictine monk, ere - But Dr. Bennet would not listen. He silenced the bo... ...ecular life—and that without Esclairmonde! Why had he not gone to a French Benedictine, who would have caught at his vow, and crowned his penitence wi... ... that which you permit me to be. King Henry and his brothers have all been scholars there.’ ‘I understand,’ said Esclairmonde, slightly colouring. ‘It... ...all him, possessed, instead of living in a common dormitory with the other scholars. Or in the open cloister he 210 The Caged Lion listened and took ...

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...en and orchard, and by and by being pronounced able to join the other girl scholars of the con- vent. Only here was the first demur. Her looks did not... ...ather her into her arms, though em- braces were against the strict rule of Benedictine nuns, and soothe and coax her to believe that by one at least s... ...f Whitburn would have been poor and maimed indeed if a whole band of black Benedictine monks had not arrived from Wearmouth, saying they had been des-... ...her a great deal about the good King, and his encouragement of his beloved scholars at Eton, and he spoke of Queen Margaret with an enthusiasm new to ...

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...the genealogical tree of the bourgeoisie of Nemours would have puzzled the Benedictines of the Almanach of Gotha, in spite of the atomic science with ... ...aris, where, she said, education costs so much. The doctor obtained a half-scholarship for his great-nephew at the school of Louis-le-Grand, where Des... ...d the problem of a universal tongue. This learned man, patient as most old scholars are, delighted in teaching Ursula to read and write. He taught her... ...h century said he had seen some,” replied the abbe. “I know all those that scholars have discussed, for I have just reread Plotinus. I am questioning ... ...ned to take her music- master for our children. If there were six or eight scholars in a class it would bring the price of his lessons within our mean...

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...ac Catherine Dé Medici INTRODUCTION THERE IS A GENERAL CRY of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for ... ...much less among lay writers than among those of the Church. It is from the Benedictines, one of the glories of France, that the purest light has come ... ...saints surreptitiously smuggled into the Church. Thus the emulators of the Benedictines, the members (too little recognized) of the Academie des Inscr... ...true history of France, the proofs for which had long been gathered by the Benedictines. Louis XVI., a just mind, himself translated the English work ...

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... is, to those who love thee, what the characters of a lost language are to scholars. De Balzac. 4 Modeste Mignon CHAPTER I THE CHALET AT THE BEGINNIN... ...a life in the background with its peace- ful toil; these are the wandering Benedictines of our social world, which offers them no other monastery. The...

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... Dukes of T uscany?” “A poet in France is not bound to be ‘as learned as a Benedictine,’” said Lucien. “Well, they became Grand-Dukes as Richelieu bec... ... to rule the world, do you not? You must begin by obeying and studying it. Scholars study books; poli- ticians study men, and their interests and the ...

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...said. “In Brixton. She doesn’t do particularly badly—or well. I live on my scholarship. I have lived on scholarships since I was thirteen. And you see... ...n o’clock. He ended by suggesting coffee. “And a liqueur?” Benham had some Benedictine! One could not slight such sympathetic helpfulness. The Benedic... ...erspectives and light-soaked blue sky, seemed cool and quiet. A flavour of scholarship pervaded them—a little blended with the flavour of innumerable ... ...of spending the summer, the sort of soft holiday a man learns to take from scholars and literary men. A man like Sir Philip, he thought, ought to have...

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...t deal of trouble yet. The priests of those days were, generally, the only scholars. They were learned in many things. Having to make their own conven... ...laced them by solitary monks like himself, of the rigid or der called the Benedictines. He made himself Archbishop of Canterbury, for his greater glo... ...doned Mount St. Michael, and wandered about as poor and forlorn as other scholars have been sometimes known to be. Charles Dickens 71 The Scotch be... ...r, and worry her into saying anything and everything; and how all sorts of scholars and doctors be Charles Dickens 243 stowed their utmost tediousne... ...the mass. They were shamefully treated; and it is recorded that the Oxford scholars hissed and howled and groaned, and misconducted themselves in an a... ...ed men who flourished in it. Apart from the great voyagers, statesmen, and scholars, whom it produced, the names of Bacon, Spenser,, and Shakespeare...

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...xposed to tests of opinion, but pursuing her quiet course according to her Benedictine rule, faithfully keeping her vows, and following the guidance o... ...seemed soothed into quiet when Cecily chanted those old Latin hymns of her Benedictine rule, and then— when he could speak at all—he showed himself to... ...Mr. Adderley thought, reach such a standard as to gain one of the very few scholarships open to foreign- ers; and his noble blood revolted at becoming... ... Madame. I was bred in England, where we love our own Church. My aunt is a Benedictine Sister, who 273 The Chaplet of Pearls keeps her rule strictly,... ... you are a long way off from that yet! Why, our T emplars be mostly Oxford scholars.’ ‘So it was explained to me,’ said Mericour, ‘but for some weeks ...

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..., who adored him, and who, ruffians as they were, trembled before him like scholars before their master, obedient to his least word, and ready to sacr... ...e sciences, alleging in this respect the inveterate hatred he had borne to scholars from his childhood. He had not so noble an air as Athos, and the c... ...ng girl, as beautiful as she is today. She was a nun in the convent of the Benedictines of T emplemar. A young priest, with a simple and trustful hear...

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... two lads, who were both destined to become distin- guished men, were poor scholars; though each had his own way of studying. By the time he was fifte... ... the old noble, ignorant and su- perficial in all things, but possessed of Benedictine erudition where the genealogy of his family was concerned. The ...

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... wayside life and character that abound in the pages of “Don Quixote:” the Benedictine monks with spectacles and sunshades, mounted on their tall mule... ...ge acted, and all said they were excellent. When the villagers saw the two scholars so unexpectedly appearing in shepherd’s dress, they were lost in w...

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...ient family, and somewhat embarrassed fortune; a scholar, according to the scholarship of Scotchmen, that is, his learning was more diffuse than accur... ...th all the brevity that my natural style of composition, partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumben... ...ness of my friends has secured me a retreat in the convent of the Scottish Benedictine nuns in Paris. T o-mor- row—if indeed I can survive to-morrow—I...

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... wayside life and character that abound in the pages of “Don Quixote:” the Benedictine monks with spectacles and sunshades, mounted on their tall mule... ...ge acted, and all said they were excellent. When the villagers saw the two scholars so unexpectedly appearing in shepherd’s dress, they were lost in w... ...the best of all, and a fourth that nothing comes up to the affair with the Benedictine giants, and the battle with the valiant Biscayan.” “Tell me, se...

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...f them men of eminence; that Holbrook, one of the most ingenious men, best scholars, and best preachers of his age, was usher during the greatest part... ...rence to the vast portion of study which is pos- sible, and to which a few scholars in the whole history of literature have attained; for when I once ... ...our and knowl- edge of life than we had; but then the dogs are not so good scholars. Sir, in my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, ... ... have at once two hundred poets; but it should be able to show two hundred scholars. Pieresc’s death was la- * Probably Richard Brinsley Sheridan, who... ...alked with her through the grate, and I am very kindly used by the English Benedictine friars. But upon the whole I cannot make much acquaintance here... ... then became a soldier. And, Sir, I was very kindly treated by the English Benedictines, and have a cell appropriated to me in their convent.’ He obse... ...n; able professors were to read lectures gratis, they contrived to have no scholars; whereas, if they had been allowed to receive but sixpence a lectu...

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...ut we shall leave the clearing up of this point of history to some learned Benedictine, who will not fail to compile a great many folios on this subje... ...our law- yers, our physicians, and a great number of the clergy, are abler scholars, have a finer taste, and more wit, than persons of all other profe...

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... at the Bibliotheque or the Museum. I slept upon my solitary pallet like a Benedictine brother, though woman was my one chimera, a chimera that fled f... ... Rastignac had luckily mentioned my modesty. I was brought in contact with scholars, men of letters, ex-ministers, and peers of France. The conversati...

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...would get what he called an exhibition from his school, and then a college scholarship and fellowship, and then a good living—it tasked young Harry Es... ...ed to converting a hundred thousand heathens by a single sermon? What is a scholarship at Trinity by the side of a crown of martyrdom, with angels awa... ...Esmond’s indolent patron. Of the pupils the two young people were but lazy scholars, and as my lady would admit no discipline such as was then in use,... ... gayety unusual to her, to attempt to dispel his gloom. She made his three scholars (herself being the chief one) more cheerful than ever they had bee... ...ome,” cries my lady, with blue eyes looking a celestial kindness: “and his scholars will always love him; won’t they?” “By G-d, Rachel, you’re a good ... ... was cured through the king’s intercession. There was Philip Pitet, of the Benedictines, who had a suffocating cough, which wellnigh killed him, but h...

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... instruction from the living voice, as well as from the books, of European scholars, is very familiar. At my own University of Harvard, not a winter p... ...e of characteristic passages from Parker’s correspon- dence.[34] “Orthodox scholars say: ‘In the heathen classics you find no consciousness of sin.’ I... ...to adorn them with some books to give the visitors a better opinion of our scholarship.”[192] Since Hindu fakirs, Buddhist monks, and Moham- medan der... ...lower example still of theopathic saintliness is that of Saint Gertrude, a Benedictine nun of the thirteenth century, whose “Revelations,” a well-know... ...religion universal, for I can point to the plain fact that a ma- jority of scholars, even religiously disposed ones, stub- bornly refuse to treat them...

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..., or doctor (words anciently synonymous), in the liberal arts, and to have scholars or apprentices (words likewise originally synonymous) to study und... ...ety of pri- 113 Adam Smith vate founders, have established many pensions, scholarships, ex- hibitions, bursaries, etc. for this purpose, which draw m... ...ersities, before that time, appear to have often granted licences to their scholars to beg. In ancient times, before any charities of this kind had be... ...m each scholar. When he taught at Athens, he is said to have had a hundred scholars. I understand this to be the number whom he taught at one time, or... ...eship have to that of arts and manufactures. The charitable foundations of scholarships, exhibitions, bursa- ries, etc. necessarily attach a certain n... ...alue. When king John of France, {See Du Cange Glos- sary, voce Moneta; the Benedictine Edition.} in order to pay his debts, adulterated his coin, all ...