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auftere.and ardent and inflexible fpirit was therefore 

 no ftranger to liberality and compaffioo. The people, 

 for whole falvation he was io careful, bellowed greater 

 marks of applaule on the pathetic ana excellent dif- 

 courfes of their archbifhop than on all the entertain- 

 ments of the theatre and the circus. His ianPTLip/e was 

 warm and elegant, and inexhauitible in every particuMr 

 that can animate, raife, and give an edge to an ora- 

 tion ; he managed every heart as he pleafed, and turned 

 every paffion to his purpoie. 



When fetch* a faint and fuch an orator was ha- 

 ranguing from his pulpit at Conflantinople, what won- 

 der-that a monk enjoyed more refpecl than the prince 

 himfelf ? In every city he was admired, in his wretched 

 and ragged garments, as an angel of heaven ; no one 

 was fo mighty as a monk ; no one could pre fume to 

 reprove princes as a monk might fafely do ; before them 

 the powerful of the earth muft bow ; every arent was 

 great and efteemed if he had but a monk for his fon ; 

 the monaftic life was the only true pbilofophy ; choirs 

 of angels in human bodies and robes of light were feen on 

 the fummits of their holy mountain ; their fiknce and 

 their adoration were as pure as the life of Adam before 

 the fall ; cells in the wiidernefs were indeed houies of 

 mourning, where folitude prevails ; but there alfo 

 dwells an undiiturbed and heavenly repoie ; and it was 

 the duty of all to haften thither to kifs the facred feet 

 of the monks. 



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