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    Is situated as judiciously amongst the woods and gardens of Monte Dracone , near Frescati . The place is called Grotta f errata , and stands on the site of the Tusculan

    villa of Cicero . The marble porch , where wisdom wont to talk With Socrates or Tully , hears no more , Save the hoarse jargon of contentious monks .

    In their own country , their monasteries are frequent objects in the valleys , the forests , and on the slopes and summits of almost every hill , and are contrived as well for

    comfort as security ; their farms tenanted by one of their order , or a lay-brother , are scattered over the whole country . Notwithstanding the fasts , when their prescribed diet is pulse , roots and plain water , aud their rising to pray an hour and a half after

    midnight , they seem almost the only sleek and well-fed people amongst the Greeks , and convince one how lavishly Dieu prodigue des biens A ceux qui font vku d'etre aiens .

    The purest wine , the cleares t honey , olives , dried fruit , wheaten bread , can always be prpcurec } in their habitations , apt ] in ^ heir ' s alone ; nor is it easy to account

    for the plumpness of thqir appearance , without supposing ibam occasionall y to transgress the rules of their order . There qre to be ^ et with some ippre abstemious anchorets , who live three or four to gether , arid npvir and then an

    ascetic , who passes his tirae in a solitary cell . The monks ^ re supported partly *> y the lunds atjtached lo their monastery , and partly by the voluq ,-fary contributions of their beli ef V « flock . Oil pmticular days ,

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    State of Religion amongst the Modern Grcefo * 437

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    they carry about wjth them little pictures of their saints * nd ajar of holy water , with a brush , and en * tering the Christian houses , give their votaries the one to kiss , and make a mark of the cross on their foreheads with the . other , receiving a para or two from each

    person . The most sanctified of the Caloyers are those who have received their education in the monas - teries of Athos , the Holy Mountain ( &yiQ $ Opog ) j which , by ari institution of which there is no

    parallel in history , swarms with six thousand saints . The theological studies of these recluses an * not so severe as their bodily labour ; for not only do they

    cultivate the ground , and attend to the vineyards and orchards , Jbut even build fishing-vessels , and exercise many mechanical trades ^ some of them undertaking to spin and weave . The monasteries of

    Patrpos are also in great repute , and mendicant brothers from them , as well as from Mount Athos , are to be nset with throughout Greece , dispensing their sacred favours , and , amongst other absurdities , even administering by anticipation the extreme unction to th «

    healthy inhabitants of a wbolp house . The Papacies are not held in such estimation as the Caloyers , and though they are certainly more serviceable , have every appearance of being more wretchqd than the recluses . A deacon

    enters into priest ' s orders by a kind of public election , for being produced to the congregation at church , the officiating papas asks the audience if he is worthy , on which , if the acclamation of all declares him worthy , ( and the

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/13/