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Excerpt from Monastic Institutions: Their Origin, Progress, Nature, and Tendency
As brevity is not only the foul of wit, but in this particular cafe, a mat ter of duty, I {hall abide by that rule, and not needlefsly occupy the time and attention of thofe who may better and more profitably difpofe of both one and the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
