...and humiliated. A " cult of bodily uncleanliness " began. A hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac, passing his life in a long routine of useless and atrocious self-torture, became, as Mr. Lecky has said, "the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and...

...maniac," to borrow the words of Lecky, "without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural attention, passing his life in a long routine of useless and...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known *.he writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of...

...and, we may add, that no part of his book is more interesting than that in which he describes it : 'A hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac, without...the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of SocrateB and Cato.' It is, indeed, difficult to say which is the most detestable figure in Mr. Lecky's...

...immediately seen) to do them any kind of practical service, — is accounted by Mr. Lecky (vol. ii., p. 114) "a hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac ; without...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain." To crucify the flesh, is to be " hideous and emaciated " ; to dwell in thought on the Infinite Creator,...

...knowledge, without patriotism, without natural alVcction, passing his life in a long routine of u.-elc— and atrocious self-torture, and quailing before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known Mie writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates...

...weakness, we cannot wonder that "a hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac," to borrow the words of Lecky, "without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates...

...weakness, we cannot wonder that "a hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac," to borrow the words of Lecky, " without knowledge, without patriotism, without natural...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates...

...When such views as these were held by all classes of society we cannot wonder that, as Lecky says, " a hideous, sordid and emaciated maniac, without knowledge,...before the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, became the ideal of the nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero and the lives of Socrates...

...and collecting stories of miracles, and peculiarities of the saints for the benefit of the Church. " A hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac, without knowledge,...of useless and atrocious self-torture, and quailing befo;e the ghastly phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of the nations which had known...

...then gives a striking passage from Mr. Lecky, descriptive of the Christian ascetic, as follows : " A hideous, sordid, and emaciated maniac without knowledge,...phantoms of his delirious brain, had become the ideal of nations which had known the writings of Plato and Cicero, and the lives of Socrates and Cato." The...