Both Uses of
monastery
in
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- This style of writing seems a little gone out of vogue, and yet it is a very useful one; and your specimen of it may be particularly serviceable, as it will make a subject of comparison with the lives of various public cutthroats and intriguers, and with absurd monastic self-tormentors or vain literary triflers.†
monastic = relating to the residence of a religious community
- [9] [9] In the Middle Ages, Franklin, if such a phenomenon as Franklin were possible in the Middle Ages, would probably have been the founder of a monastic order†
*
Definition:
the residence of a religious community