Chastity then applies in vain to the Lords of Spirituality for shelter; an abbot jeers at her and a parson bids her Pas hame amang the Nunnis and dwell, Quhilks ar of Chastitie the well.
These Percies and Fairfaxes and Mowbrays and St Quintins schooled their hot blood with difficulty to obedience and chastity and the Yorkshire nunneries were apt to reflect the fierce passions of the Border, quick to love and quick to fight.
The whole monastic ideal is, however, bound up with the vow of chastity and, had only women with a vocation entered nunneries, the danger of the situation would have been small.
When all thy powers in chastity are spent, To have a mind so hot?
Is't like, that factious beauty will preserve The public weal of chastity unshaken, When such strong motives muster, and make head Against her single peace?
Wagogo, of German East Africa, chastity of women during absence of warriors among the, i.
See also Chastity Conty, in France, Lenten fires at, x.
Columella, on chastityto be observed by those who handle food, ii.
Tsetsaut Indians of British Columbia, fasting and chastity of hunters among the, iii.
A queen of our time said with spirit, "that to refuse these courtesies is a testimony of weakness in women and a self-accusation of facility, and that a lady could not boast of her chastity who was never tempted.
Now, the duty of chastity is of a vast extent; is it the will that we would have them restrain?
As we see some who complain of having vowed chastity before they knew what they did; and I have also known others really, complain of having been given up to debauchery before they were of the years of discretion.
In the East Indies, though chastity is of singular reputation, yet custom permitted a married woman to prostitute herself to any one who presented her with an elephant, and that with glory, to have been valued at so high a rate.
The chastity of this girl," now continued the auctioneer, "is pure.
Hence all who are in hell are in the lust, lasciviousness, and immodesty of adulterous love, and shun and dread the chastity and modesty of conjugial love; see above, n.
Her intellect, her courage, and her chastity were all of great and fine quality, like the burnished blade of a sword, that is at once delicate and strong.
It is true, her chastity has been as perilous and as cruel as the immoralities of others.
Such was the anxious diligence which was required to guard the chastity of the gospel from the infectious breath of idolatry.
She claimed her descent from the Macedonian kings of Egypt, * equalled in beauty her ancestor Cleopatra, and far surpassed that princess in chastity and valor.
The grateful flattery of the learned has celebrated her virtues; but, if we may credit the scandal of ancient history, chastity was very far from being the most conspicuous virtue of the empress Julia.
Thus it came to pass that the people, both men and women, loved a life of virginity, and in chastity emulated the dwellers in Heaven.
But as to Chastity the invigorating quality of the regimen is certainly open to the most serious doubt.
Purity is the new-fallen snow which can be melted or sullied; chastity is steel tempered in the fire by white heat.
For chastity is only developed together with complete love; this not only excludes equally all partition among several but also makes a separation between the demands of the heart and the senses impossible.
This alone is the chastitywhich must characterize the family life and form in the future the basis of foundation for the happiness of the people.
The background of the picture is filled with the fortress in which Chastity sits securely guarded behind double walls, to whom angels are bearing the crown and palm of heavenly victory.
They took the vows of chastity and poverty, and their habit was a long black cassock with a white rochet over it, having over that a black cloak and hood.
Courage, it is commonly said, must not be carried over into foolhardiness; Chastity must not go so far as the monks of the early Church took it; there is a limit to the indulgence of the instinct of Reverence.
The example of Tahiti is instructive as regards the prevalence of chastity among peoples of what we generally consider low grades of civilisation.
The chastity of a slave or a freedwoman or even a foreigner, was of no value.
Love, again, in the latter part, stands for our Saviour; homage to him is the profession of faith of a novice; the commandments of Love are the vows of chastity and poverty.
Voluntary and complete chastity is the first step in asceticism or the denial of the will to live.
Yet in chastity of life, in piety, in justice, in courage even, there is no one of all his acquaintance to whom he need give place.
They have a wonderful grace, wonderful sweetness, and wonderful humour, and thechastity of the writer enhances its charm.
When you are old, maintain chastity then; thus will you obtain both worldly pleasure and religious consolation.
The chastity of the Germans, and their strict regard to the laws of marriage, are witnessed by all their ancient codes of law.
V It was not chastity that made me cold nor fear, only I knew that you, like myself, were sick of the puny race that crawls and quibbles and lisps of love and love and lovers and love's deceit.
Lady, in the Virgin's chastity the great love is reached.
Merovingian history leaves a unique impression of a line of rulers and dependents among whom mercy and truth and chastity were unknown.
He flung the bridle on his horse's neck, spurring him forward; and the horse carried him straight to the hermitage of holy Trevrizent, who fasted there to fit himself for heaven, his chastity warring with the devil.
Chastity is an ideal, but, to realize this, humanity would perish.
But, having these natural desires, if you attempt to suppress them, then I say that your so-called chastity is all humbug.
Indeed, though I should be the last to imitate it, such chastity on your part would win my admiration.
But chastity is the very thing that we don't possess!
Chastity has been faithfully observed, chastity both of body and mind.
