id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005197587 Seymour, M. Hobart (Michael Hobart), 1800-1874. Convents or nunneries : a lecture in reply to Cardinal Wiseman, delivered at the Assembly Rooms, Bath, on Monday, June 7th, 1852 1852 .txt text/plain 24742 765 62 But the Cardinal himself let out, in another part ofhis address, the statement that he, in his experience of nuns and nunneries, could say there were more nuns above 40 than undel' 25.. 52 NUNNERIES AT ROME, MILAN, &a, Now if this language means anything, it means that there are very few under 25; in other words, it seems an undesigned evidence of the truth of the statement that these young girls die before twenty- five years of age. He spoke, indeed, about there being many more nuns of his acquaintance over forty than under twenty-five years of age; and he spoke jauntily of nuns of advancing years, and of a green old age; and he spoke this out as if he wished it to be implied -he did not say it, but he appeared to convey the impliĀ­ cation .- cache/_005197587.txt txt/_005197587.txt