Word: monkish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pynson and Berthelet in England and of many other famous presses throughout Europe. Especially represented among these early books are those which throw light upon the development of natural science. Such are the editions of Aristotle, Pliny, Ptolemy and Albertus Magnus; oracular compends of Isidore, Hrabanus Maurus; the monkish encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa...
...parents. No work can well be done by a man who allows himself to be blown hither and thither by the wind of popularity, or who is striving after good-fellowship with his class-mates. Not that a student should shut himself up in his rooms and so acquire monkish habits, lose in worldly knowledge to gain in knowledge of letters: yet at the first glance, this seems to be the only resort for those who wish to graduate from the college with a high standing on the class rank list. But there are men who seem to do both...
...Middle Ages, the monkish chronicles and the legends of saints are full of the Devil, who suddenly becomes a very active member of society. He is now a rather contemptible, mischievous fellow. His primary object is to entrap human souls; but if not successful in making holy men sin, he is content, nevertheless, for he at least makes them miserably uncomfortable. He is always playing tricks upon the unwary, in which he is usually discomfited. A typical example of the Devil in the literature of this time is found in the story of his persecution of St. Dunstan...