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...lar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics. The novel explores the cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...Marx desired? But such equality has only been found in the monasteries and convents of the Christians and Buddhists. --―In the West, laws an...

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...orehouse nor residence was molested, but instead, the Buccaneers rushed to the convents, churches and monasteries, from which they dragged out the mon... ...re consuming the cathedral, four or five other churches, eight monasteries and convents, a great number of warehouses and stores, and more than 6000 p... ...upon giving up half were allowed to retain the remainder, but all churches and convents were to be respected. CHAPTER XXX. THE PLUNDER OF CARTAGENA. ... ...ed and ninety villages, divided into twelve parishes, having a bishop, several convents and monasteries, and a lineal succession of sixteen bishops, w...

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... attempted this. A few small religious groups, such as in monasteries and convents, have done it,. —―It‘s strange that only a few small religi...

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...him. Haunted by his guilt he vowed to St. Nicholas to found a church and two convents, if he lived to reach Otranto. The sacrifice was accepted: the ... ...f Hippolita, and each took on them the habit of religion in the neighbouring convents. Frederic offered his daughter to the new Prince, which Hippolit...

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...t. THE DAYS of the Wars of the Roses were evil times for the discipline of convents, which, together with the entire West- ern Church, suffered from t... ...rinces. Small remote houses, used as daughters or auxiliaries to the large convents, were especially apt to fall into a lax state, and in truth the li... ...ories yet to come, though there were occasionally such towns, villages and convents on the way where provisions and lodging could be obtained. Every f...

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...f the day subsided, the Angelus bell sounded far off from the churches and convents of Acre, and near from the chapel tent, and the devotions that it ... ...ld send forth seeds or roots for the supply of the trim gardens of Western convents. The soft bubbling of fountains gave a sense of delicious fresh- ... ...her father was out on his begging expeditions, and learnt such breeding as convents then gave. “In sooth,” said Sir Robert, “honest Hal believes it is...

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...urs at their windows looking on, and to hear the bells of the churches and convents ringing at most com plete cross purposes with the scene. Beyond t... ...ll Genoa, in beautiful confusion, with its many churches, monasteries, and convents, pointing up into the sunny sky; and down below me, just where the... ...Many churches?’ ‘No. Nearly all suppressed by the French.’ ‘Monasteries or convents?’ ‘No. The French again! Nearly all suppressed by Napo leon.’ ‘Mu...

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...g and his father. He was a friend to the clergy, a founder of churches and convents, and his manor house of Hadleigh was a home of hospitality and cha... ...her, ‘W oman, God is not served by shedding innocent blood and by building convents out of the plun- der of families, but by compassion and forgivenes... ... of Scotland rendered it the habit of her kings to attach their palaces to convents, that they themselves might benefit by the ‘peace of the Church’, ... ...orded a refuge to many others who were in danger—to nuns driven from their convents, dispossessed clergy, and persons who dreaded to remain at their h...

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... ‘I deemed,’ said Malcolm, ‘that heavenly contemplation was the purpose of convents.’ ‘Even so, for such as can contemplate like the holy man I have t... ...ld you of,’ said Esclairmonde; ‘but labour hath been greatly laid aside in convents of late, and I doubt me if it be well, or if their prayers be the ... ...ain. He took the lower wity, containing the market-place and several large convents, with no great difficulty; but the upper city, on a rising ground ... ... how to dispose of your sister? Some nunnery—’ ‘Poor Lily, she is weary of convents,’ said Malcolm ‘but if Lady Montagu would let her be with her and ...

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...ave his own. It is very fortunate that the government is just now endowing convents; they’ll provide our funds. Everything, you see, con- spires in ou...

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...He hath not told us of the captain yet: When that is known and golden time convents, 133 Act V , scene i A solemn combination shall be made Of our de...

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...h priest, or had come under the influence of the better sort of friars. In convents where discipline was kept up the meaning was carefully taught, and... .... Dowers were more thought of than 56 Grisly Grisell devotion in convents as elsewhere. Whitby being one of the oldest and grandest foundati...

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...a terrible compound, of which the devil has given the receipt, luckily for convents, because there are a great number of frightened ladies, who become... ...ed to see that the ancient inhabitants had for- gotten the great number of convents situated in this street, where the severe continence of the monks ...

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...ted and despised, when, instead, ev- erybody ran in the devil’s name, into convents or to pilgrim- ages and indulgences, with loss [of time and money]... ...ians, and would even be regarded as forbidding good works and clearing the convents. For in this wise the ordinary state of Christians would be consid...

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...essed nun at Romsey till her twenty-eight year, when, in the dispersion of convents, her sister’s home had received her. There had she continued, neve... ...Scriptures. When Queen Mary had sent for her to consider of the revival of convents, her views had been found to have so far diverged from those of th... ...r, the happy cadet of eight brothers and sisters, turned adrift from their convents. What a fatherly spectacle M. le Marquis will present!’ Here the C... ...oice in thus saving her soul! How if her heretic treated Bellaise like the convents of England?’ ‘No threats, brother. As a daughter of Ribaumont and ... ...y the spotless saint—get weak-minded priests on her side—be all for strict convents. No, no; her time for that is past! Shut her up with trustworthy p... ... mother’s children.’ ‘ Ah! so large a family all one? All at home? None in convents?’ ‘We have no convents.’ ‘Ah, no. but all at home! All at peace! T... ...said the priest came down and carried off the little ones to be bred up in convents.’ ‘Who?—where?’ asked Berenger, raising his head as if catch- ing ...

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...n, and the alameda, and the theatre, where bull-fights are fought, and the convents, where the admirable works of Don Bartholomew Murillo in- spired o... ... drunk with the famous wines there, pillaging and robbing quiet houses and convents, murdering and doing worse. And the only blood which Mr. Esmond dr...

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...f old?’ “ ‘To a convent!’ said M. de Serizy. ‘They must first have created convents, and in those days monasteries were being turned into barracks. Be...

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... Walter Scott XIX. There, met to doom in secrecy, Were placed the heads of convents three; All servants of Saint Benedict, The statutes of whose order...

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...r broken on the wheel. This for my brother in the galleys. That for my mother or my sister imprisoned in your cursed convents.’ Each gave his blow and...