 Wise (AD 570), observing with pain that not only the laity but also the clergy were scandalously given to habits of intoxication, issued some rules to his monks, and ordained that ' if any one, through drinking too freely, gets thick of speech so that...  Drink, Temperance and Legislation - 16. oldalszerző: Arthur Shadwell - 1915 - 304 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Thomas Edward Bridgett - 1876 - 332 oldal
...following canon, or rather monastic penance of St Gildas the Wise, in AD 570. " If any one (ie, a monk), through drinking too freely, gets thick of speech,...the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper." In order to appreciate properly the above and the following canons regarding monks, it should be remembered... | |
 | James Samuelson - 1878 - 336 oldal
...by the Councils of the Church, St. Gildas the Wise (AD 570) decreed, " If any one (that is, a monk) through drinking too freely gets thick of speech,...the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper." l No very severe penalty that ; for he would probably be all the better for the abstinence. The year... | |
 | Richard Valpy French - 1884 - 446 oldal
...Discipline of Drink, we admit the monastic penance of St. Gildas the Wise (AD 570) : ' If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so...the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper.' The following are among the canons of St. David : — (1) Priests about to minister in the temple of... | |
 | John Granville Woolley, William Eugene Johnson - 1903 - 586 oldal
...Perhaps the famous monastic penance of St. Gildas the Wise (AD 570) should be excepted : " If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so that he cannot join in the psalmody, he must be deprived of his supper." D. From this pagan custom, the early German Christians got their practice... | |
 | John William Postgate - 1916 - 172 oldal
...restraining order to the monks within his jurisdiction: "If any man gets so thick of speech through drink that he cannot join in the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper." This penalty may seem trivial and amusing to modern tipplers, but to persons inordinately fond of sack and... | |
 | Betty Boles Ellison - 2003 - 193 oldal
...St. David. In 670, St. Gildas the Wise, a Scottish monk and early historian, proclaimed, "If any monk through drinking too freely gets thick of speech so...join in the psalmody, he is to be deprived of his supper."82 Churches and distilling soon formed a union. The reason was the simple business acumen of... | |
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