In the book of his Conferences he has collected the spiritual maxims of the wisest and most experienced monks with whom he had conversed in Egypt.
St. Basil gave him many rules of holy life, and after long spiritual conferences dismissed him with great esteem, having first ordained his companion priest.
Cassian was promoted to the order of priesthood in the West, and retiring to Marseilles, there founded two monasteries, one for men, and another for virgins, and wrote his spiritual Conferences and other works.
He also appointed regular ecclesiasticalconferences on the duties of the clerical state, &c.
One of the features of the exhibition was the number of congresses and conferences held in connexion with it.
The institution of the Hague Conferences has now provided a method of obtaining the consent of nations, not only to existing rules, but to their reform and to the introduction of new rules.
The Hague Court and its adjunct in time of war, the proposed International Prize Court of Appeal, will form the Judicature applying and construing the enactments of the Conferencesacting as a sort of international Legislature.
It is now an understanding among the states of the world, that these conferences shall be held periodically.
The appeal to scholars of communicating through these conferences is that, unlike any other medium, electronic conferences today provide a forum for global communication with peers at the front end of the research process.
The rate of growth of these scholarly electronic conferences also is astonishing.
She was present at every consultation between the King and his Ministers--indeed the conferences were invariably held in her own apartments, every day from five till eight.
At any cost this persecution must end; and the result of the conferences was that an excellent plan was evolved.
The representations of the Churches and conferences throughout the kingdom were then called for.
In this Conference it was agreed that President Hyde should edit the Star, and attend to all business in the publishing office at Liverpool, while President Taylor and myself should visit the different conferences in the British Isles.
Several new conferences were also organized, and presidents were appointed for each conference in the kingdom.
The Conferencesof St. Vincent de Paul, the many other charitable societies, and the pastors, support and succor quite as many more families, the greater portion of whom are also dependent on the public.
The most prominent of the special conferences are the Cercle du Luxembourg, formed by the Catholic students, and the Cercle de la Jeunesse, formed by the youth of the higher schools.
First in importance and influence are the Conferences of St. Vincent de Paul, founded at Paris in the beginning of the third decade of the present century.
He referred, of course, to Vansleb, who was already fully advised in the matter from long conferences with Ludolf.
Among the national conferences may be instanced a Polish, a Flemish, an Italian, an English, and two German.
Meanwhile, informal conferences were held on the questions of purgatory, and the beatitude of the saints before the final day of judgment.
The distracting question of slavery was agitating and retarding the labors of both, and led to conferences of intercommunications of the members.
But such Conferences as this, in such emergencies as the present, must act, if our country is to be saved.
I quote this testimony now, to show that Conferences were held between the members of Congress and the Federal Convention, upon the subject of slavery.
He accompanied the chancellor on all his journeys; was present at all the conferences that preceded and followed the war; no political secrets were hidden from him; and his hand drafted all important diplomatic documents.
In 1887 there were thirty Congregational churches in the three conferences of Grand Traverse, Cheboygan, and Chippewa and Mackinac.
And their Conferences are bound to fail, when each unit has the falsest conception concerning the matters under discussion.
And the occasional conferences of private men still hazy as to these principles are bound to be as ineffective.
I can bear witness to the fact that through those many conferences my brother’s courtesy to the brilliant older man never failed, nor did he ever lose his independent outlook or action.
He bitterly opposed the annexation of Texas, and his conferences with the ex-President must have encouraged the latter's adherence to his former position.
After full conferencesbetween the Whig and Republican state committees, calls were issued for two state conventions to meet at Syracuse on September 26.
This found even more definite expression in a series of conferences which were held in November of the same year, 1902, between the prime ministers of the different colonies and the British Secretary of the Colonies.
It is significant that during the conferences held at Madrid between the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and the French Ambassador, the English Ambassador was present at the invitation of both France and Spain.
Its chief claim to international fame rests on its selection by the other civilized nations as the center of the international peace conferences and the seat of the International Court of Arbitration.
It participated in a number of the more important international conferences held during the last thirty-five or forty years and, generally speaking, managed to maintain friendly relations with most of the other nations.
Conferences between Lord Milner on behalf of England and President Krueger of the Transvaal came to naught.
We had popular education, aseptic surgery, the wireless, and antitoxin, but war came nevertheless, and in the wake of Hague conferences and much preaching of internationalism.
But fortunately for the peace of Europe this question at that time was settled by a series of conferences which were concluded in the fall of 1905.
On the wheels of these domesticconferences the visit passed away, uneventful until its last day, when Henry Strangways descended to breakfast with a set face, and a saucer upon which reposed a minute fleck of something flabby and green.
Gaston Migeon, and the rich sources of the "Conferences Marocaines" and the articles of "France-Maroc.
It slowly dawned upon my mind that you put me forward in your conferences with them, because you valued my suggestions and my initiative more than you did theirs.
Societies were formed, halls were given a Secular name, and conferences were held to organise adherents of the new opinion.
Further conferenceswere held in July, 1854, one at Stockport.
A joint letter from Mr. Adams and myself, sent by the last packet, informed you of the result of our conferences with the Tripoline minister.
Our conferenceswere intended as preparatory to some arrangement.
The conferences with the minister of Portugal have been drawn to a greater length than I expected.
In London, we had conferences with a Tripoline ambassador, now at that court, named Abdrahaman.
In great dismay, he besought the court of London not to abandon him, sent Alvensleben to Paris to explain and soothe; and England, through the Duke of Dorset and Eden, renewed her conferences for accommodation.
I waited on Count Montmorin the next morning, and explained to him, with truth and candor, how it had happened that my house had been made the scene of conferences of such a character.
What we were authorized to offer, being to this but as a drop to a bucket, our conferences were repeated, only for the purpose of obtaining information.
Aristotle had various helpers, and arranged to give his lectures and conferences daily in certain porches or promenades.
This rupture of the conferences took place on the 19th of March, six days after the presentation of the ultimatum of the Allied powers.
I was present at all the meetings andconferences which were held at M de Talleyrand's hotel, where the Emperor Alexander had taken up his residence.
I happened by chance to be present at two conferences in which were set forward projects infected with the odour of the clubs, and these projects were supported with the more assurance because their success was regarded as certain.
The successes of the Allies during the conferences at Chatillon had opened to their view the road to Paris, while Napoleon shrunk from the necessity of signing his own disgrace.
Accordingly, three days afterwards, the Allies grew tired of the delay and the conferenceswere broken up.
Now with a change in the directorship the conferences have taken on an almost entirely practical tone.
Formerly these conferences were largely religious in significance, consisting of much righteousness with a slight leaven of business.
In this subterranean church, which is adorned with statues of Saint Paul and Saint John the Evangelist by Pradier, the catechism is taught and conferences are held.
No Brussels conferences or Geneva conventions, however much they may alleviate the miseries of the battle-fields, can soften the hard lines of a foreign occupation in its general features; and M.
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