Also important were the lavras (colonies of hermits) established in Palestine between the fourth and early sixth centuries, notably those founded by St Euthymius (+473) and his disciple St Sabas (+532).

In what a lamentable caſe were I, If Nature had not giuen me wiſedomes lore?

But English society is no monolith, and it is a gross simplification to force it into one mould.

In operations on lines in space, it is convenient to substitute for some of the given lines other lines, equal, and therefore parallel, to the given ones, but passing through a point in space common to themselves and the other given lines; so that all the lines may be coöriginal.