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These monkeries were established in the land by virtue of civil authority.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

Broke violently in upon quiescent Austrian routine, on every side: monkeries, school-pedantries, trade-monopolies, serfages,—all things, military and civil, spiritual and temporal, he had resolved to make perfect in a minimum of time.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas

Yet Diderot had far too much genius to be tempted into the exaggerations of more vulgar assailants of monkeries and nunneries.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

What a rag-fair of extinct monkeries, high-piled here in the very shrine of our existence, fit to smite the generations with atrophy and beggarly paralysis,—as we see it do!

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

Buddhist monkeries and nunneries are almost as common, and certainly more ancient than Roman Catholic monasteries, and they had very nearly the same numerous accessories in worship, which we are familiar with in papal countries.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas