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In England, persons who under the name
fellows and other persons enjoying receiving stipends fellows
In England fellows of colleges and other persons
enjoying university stipends in the two universities are in most
instances confined to celibacy. This together
with the frequent incessant repetition of devotional exercises
which is exacte and a few other trifling useless
obser obligations which are imposed on them in
common with the other members of the universities those antient bodies
are the only remains of monkery that subsist to be found at present
subsisting.
As to Celibacy though an ascetic practice it is not
defended in England upon ascetic principles.
There The ordinary pretence is that they men are kept
from the cares of a family, that they may
studiis vacare, have leisure to pursue their
studies: as if the law knew better for all
than each individual for himself, which were
the greater care, the care of having a wife,
or the care of wanting one. What
What makes the hardship in this case as
well as in the case of the catholic monks
is that men are trepanned into the engagement
without
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