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hvd.hn289i	Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875	Hermits 	1868.0		.txt	text/plain	94144	3210	71	Bishops and clergy, monks and Christian matrons (a great temptation), people of the common sort, great men, too, and judges crowded to him, to receive from him blessed bread or oil. This class of men sprang up rapidly, by natural causes, and yet by a Divine necessity, as soon a; the Western Empire was conquered by the German tribes; and those two young officers whom we saw turning monks at Trêves, in the time of St. Augustine, may, if they lived to be old men, have given sage counsel again and again to fierce German knights and kinglets, who had dispossessed the rich and effeminate land- owners of their estates, and sold them, their wives, and THE HERMITS OF EUROPE.	cache/hvd.hn289i.txt	txt/hvd.hn289i.txt