"Hospice" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... leur culte. Cette place serait mise sous la protection speciale des deux Puissances qui en garantiraient la possession paisible a la communaute protestante. Il s'agira aussi d'acquerir pour cette communaute le mont Sion afin d'y batir un hospice pour tous ceux qui visiteront ces contres par des motifs religieux ou scientifiques, d'etablir des presbyteres et des hospitaux, de fonder des ecoles pour les enfans de la population protestante (peut-etre aussi pour les enfans juifs), ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf
... Hospice about an hour after dark, somewhat stiff, and very wet from the rain and snow that commenced falling as we entered the region of clouds. We had passed unpleasantly near some very considerable precipices, ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various
... place, place, plaza. anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor. quarter, parish &c (region) 181. assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn; hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow^, khan, hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel house [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop^, dive [U.S.], exchange [Euph.]; grill room, saloon [U.S.], shebeen^; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet^, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... on to the Great St Bernard and there he wrote some more verses, this time I am afraid in Latin. He also took good care to be properly impressed by the Hospice and its situation. "The whole of this most extraordinary journey seemed like a dream, its conclusion especially, in gentlemanly society, with every comfort and accommodation amidst the rudest rocks and in the region of perpetual ...
— The Way of All Flesh • Samuel Butler
... de cette faveur pour etablir dans la ville un hopital ou hospice, destine aux pelerins de ses etats Francais. Tel etoit l'esprit du temps. Ces sortes de voyages etant reputes l'action la plus sainte que put imaginer la devotion, un prince qui les favorisoit croyoit bien meriter de la religion. Charlemagne d'ailleurs avoir le gout des pelerinages; et son ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt
... that he might prop up his cabin where the sea had eaten out the floor, and when they forgot the commission, the sea itself washed one up in the very cove where it was needed: when the choughs from the cliff stole his barley and the straw from the roof of his little hospice, he had only to reprove them, and they never offended again; on one occasion, indeed, they atoned for their offence by bringing him a lump of suet, wherewith he greased his shoes for many a day. We are not bound to believe this story; it is one of many which hang about the memory of St. Cuthbert, ...
— The Hermits • Charles Kingsley |
