Yatis and Sannyasins and mendicants of domestic lives have always been fed in thy house from off plates of gold where I have distributed (food) amongst them.
Yudhishthira then said, 'Let those mendicants and Brahmanas and Yogis that are incapable of bearing hunger and thirst, the fatigues of travel and toil, and the severity of winter, desist.
But a little earlier than the sixteenth century that race of mendicants the Gipsies, made their debut.
Sidenote: Justification] After passing various reform decrees on preaching, catechetical instruction, privileges of mendicants and indulgences, the council took up the thorny question of justification.
By the end of the thirteenth century the Mendicants of Oxford were fairly well provided with books.
Such friendliness for theMendicants was far from common among the secular clergy.
Whenever it happened," he says, "that we turned aside to the cities and places where the mendicants .
Under the Directory mendicants were for a time allowed to beg as they chose.
The Government now found it necessary to relinquish the emigration project, and every endeavour was made to provide mendicants with employment at home.
An edict was issued in 1524 condemning mendicants to be whipped and banished.
In course of years, however, in spite of the General Hospital and of the Hôtel des Invalides, opened in 1670 to indigent soldiers, mendicants once more multiplied in the streets of Paris.
An article in the penal code sets forth, in fact, that "the beggar is sent to the station-house for mendicants not as a punishment but as a measure of police, to be exercised at the discretion of the administrative authority.
The first person to occupy himself with the fate of the mendicants seems to have been a certain theoretical reformer named Jean Douet de Romp Croissant.
The king himself recognised the fact, and, in a wise and beneficent letter, wrote as follows: "I have felt keenly afflicted at the great number of mendicants that fill the streets of Paris and Versailles.
It has been proposed that agricultural colonies be established (as they are in Holland) where mendicants may be kept permanently at work.
In exchange for the labour required from the mendicants employed in tilling the land, bread would be given to them, a certain remuneration, and, it might be, a portion of the field cultivated by them.
The mendicants indeed obtained from Leo a bull against the writers of the book, but this only increased its circulation.
Mendicants and Jesuits opposed and mutually excommunicated one another.
The mendicants represented even yet relatively the better side of monasticism, and maintained their character as exponents of theological learning.
The groomsman is the individual appointed to lower these importunate barriers; which he does by casting among the mendicants small pieces of money.
The mendicants follow at their heels by hundreds, to share the remnants of the feast.
It is seldom in Northern India that the bulls led about by the quasi-religious mendicants known as "Anandi" do more than shake their heads or kneel at a sign of command.
Some religious mendicantshabitually ride, especially on the Punjab frontier.
Professional mendicants he regarded with abhorrence, and waged unceasing war on Italian organ-grinders as an insolent and irremovable nuisance, as well as on German bands and all who maintained the dominion of unnecessary din.
It spread so wide that the succeeding emperors were obliged to institute new laws; and individuals were allowed to seize on these mendicants for their slaves and perpetual vassals: a powerful preservative against this disorder.
Convinced that idleness more inevitably introduced poverty than any other cause, it was rigorously punished; the Egyptians made it criminal, and no vagabonds or mendicantswere suffered under any pretence whatever.
This is no less a person than Hare the murderer, who years ago aided Burke in murdering poor mendicants and houseless people in Edinburgh, and selling their bodies to the surgeons for dissection.
The indignant mendicants procured the archbishop's citation to Avignon, and it was a striking proof of the ineffectiveness of recent legislation that Edward III.
The peasantry being reduced to the state of serfs, the apathy and indolence consequent on servitude, cause Bohemia to swarm with mendicants and vagabonds.
The humane mind is not here shocked by the appearance of that squalid misery which excites as much disgust as pity, and the number of mendicants with which most other large cities are infested.
He banished all the Christians from it, and left nothing but a few mendicants to dwell amidst the ruins of their country.
The mendicants and vagabonds who followed the Christian army were employed in the labours of the siege, and worked under the orders of a captain, who took the title of “Roi truant,” or king of the beggars.
Therefore, Janaka should resume his kingdom and practise charity; otherwise, religious mendicants would be undone.
The mendicantsthemselves are restrained from disturbing the householders often.
When, therefore, mendicants are similar to kings in this respect, why would mendicants only attain to Emancipation, and not kings?
The life of a mendicant is equally fraught with the same (for mendicants also reward and chastise those they can).
Coming out from among those that lead a domestic mode of life, mendicants depend upon those very persons from whom they come.
The Universities, above all the University par excellence, were in the hands of the secular clergy; and long and intricate is the story of their jealous endeavours to exclude the Mendicantsfrom Professors' chairs.
The Mendicants were zealous for the Faith, and loyal liegemen of the popes, who were their sustainers and the guarantors of their freedom from local ecclesiastical interference.
The doctors of the theological Faculty became suspicious, and opposed the admission of Mendicantsto the theological Faculty.
Their efforts found in the zeal of the Mendicants a ready response which was not forthcoming from the secular clergy.
More serious still, from the point of view of the Church, was the association of these wandering mendicants with the mystic heresies of the Fraticelli, the Apostolici and the pantheistic Brethren of the Free Spirit.
These devotees lavish large sums in indiscriminate charity, and it is the hope of sharing in such pious distributions that brings together the concourse of religious mendicants from all quarters of the country.
It would have required peculiar acuteness on the part of a stranger to distinguish matters so closely resembling each other in their external appearances; and the one were mendicants no less than the others.
In accordance with Buddha's command a common confession of all the brethren in every monastery took place after the rainy season before the mendicants recommenced their travels.
Numerous systems of religious imposture were soon contrived, and mendicants of a hundred orders swarmed through the land.
Mendicants assail you on all sides, the legless dragging themselves on their hands, the halt running towards you with a crutch, the blind led by wife or child, the deaf and dumb, the idiotic.
Begging is quite an honourable profession in Spain; mendicants are charitably termed the poor, and not besmirched, as in England, with an opprobrious name.
I have never seen so large or so varied a collection of professional and casual mendicants as within and about the sacred enclosures of Kief.
Other more prosperous mendicants were regularly on hand for business every day at the "old stand" in some particular thoroughfare.
The mendicants of Sevilla are much more daring and pertinacious than their craft elsewhere.
When you get into the town ask for Tom Salter, and get him to take you to the `Baas'.
A foot lower and it would have knocked my head to pieces!
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