He died in August of the following year, his death being probably hastened by his mortification at the apparently firm establishment of episcopacy in Scotland.

Nelson himself wrote back to Ball from the Baltic on 4 June 1801: " My dear, invaluable friend ,... believe me, my heart entertains the very warmest affection for you, and it has been no fault of mine, and not a little mortification, that you have not the red ribbon and other rewards that would have kept you afloat ; but as I trust the war is at an end, you must take your flag when it comes to you, for who is to command our fleets in a future war ?...

Objecting to Ross's precipitate retreat, Sabine later recalled his " very visible mortification at having come away from a place which I considered as the most interesting in the world for magnetic observations, and where my expectations had been raised to the highest pitch, without having had an opportunity of making them.

Though doubtless at an early date a private means of penance and mortification, such use is publicly exemplified in the tenth and eleventh centuries by the lives of St. Dominic Loricatus and St. Peter Damian ( died 1072 ).

But Arlington's support of the court policy was entirely subordinate to personal interests ; and after the appointment of Clifford in November 1672 to the treasurership, his jealousy and mortification, together with his alarm at the violent opposition aroused in parliament, caused him to veer over to the other side.

In his later years Bonde's powers of resistance were weakened by sickness and mortification at the triumph of reckless extravagance, and he practically retired from the government some time before his death.

Father Cholenec introduced whips, hair shirts and iron girdles, traditional items of Catholic mortification, to the converts at Kahnawake so they would adopt these rather than use Mohawk practices.

After her First Communion at the age of nine, she practised in secret severe corporal mortification until rheumatic fever confined her to bed for four years.

Tekakwitha's dedication to ritual mortification became more intense and consuming over the remainder of her life ; she included prolonged fasting, flogging, cutting, sleeping on a bed of thorns, and burning herself with hot coals.

However, to his mortification, Tromp's crew refused to let him onboard, addressing De With the invective ' green cheese ' and even threatening to fire a salvo on his boat if he did not stop waving around his commission papers from the States-General: he had a very bad reputation among common sailors — indeed hundreds had already deserted when it became known he would be supreme commander.

In Christian times, this terminology was adopted but roughly restricted to the physical sphere: chastity became a matter of approved sexual conduct, castigation usually meaning physical punishment, either as a form of penance, as a voluntary pious exercise ( see mortification of the flesh ) or as educational or other coercion, while the use for other ( e. g. verbal ) punishments ( and criticism etc.

When prosperous, he was insolent and boastful ; when he sustained a check, his undisguised mortification doubled the triumph of his enemies: very slight provocations sufficed to kindle his anger ; and when he was angry he said bitter things which he forgot as soon as he was pacified, but which others remembered many years.

Themes that arise in anthropological writings about headhunting include mortification of the rival, ritual violence, cosmological balance, the display of manhood, cannibalism, prestige, and as a means of securing the services of the victim as a slave in the afterlife.

Here he remained alone for about six years giving himself to prayer and mortification.

He wrote, “ I was ashamed of myself, and make haste now to declare that the mortification of pride I then endured ... ended in a resolution to study the whole matter .” Writing about Christianity helped him become clear about his own ideas and beliefs.

Suffering plays an important role in a number of religions, regarding matters such as the following: consolation or relief ; moral conduct ( do no harm, help the afflicted, show compassion ); spiritual advancement through life hardships or through self-imposed trials ( mortification of the flesh, penance, ascetism ); ultimate destiny ( salvation, damnation, hell ).

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purport of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone had been cast, but, alas!

The passage continues with a famous account of an interruption: " At this moment he was unfortunately called out by a person on business from Porlock, and detained by him above an hour, and on his return to his room, found, to his no small surprise and mortification, that though he still retained some vague and dim recollection of the general purpose of the vision, yet, with the exception of some eight or ten scattered lines and images, all the rest had passed away like the images on the surface of a stream into which a stone has been cast, but, alas!

Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.

The acquittal of Hastings in April 1795 disappointed Francis of the governor-generalship, and in 1798 he had to submit to the additional mortification of a defeat in the general election.

Cornelius were: Jerome Lindsay, U. J. D., of Paris, son of the Earl of Crawford, commemorated in the Franciscan Martyrology with title of blessed, pre-eminent for his humility, mortification, and spirit of prayer ; David Crannok, who was physician to King James II and his consort Queen Margaret ; he succeeded Fr.

The craft made the familiar unwelcome flight to Havana, where, for some unknown reason, Castro rushed to the airport to express mortification to the Colombian foreign minister, a passenger, who is not an admirer of old Ten O'Clock Shadow.

On 13 July 1717 he was made Master of the Rolls, and fulfilled his duties with " legal ability, integrity and despatch " until his death on 19 August 1738 of " a mortification in the bowels ".

According to some critics who accuse Opus Dei of promoting " Corporal Mortification ", they believe that Opus Dei Numeraries, Numerary Assistants, and Associates practice several forms of mortification.

It prescribes the recitation of the canonical office, or else of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin, or, in its place, of the Pater noster and Ave Maria to be said thirty-five times a day, five times in lieu of each of the canonical hours ; also half an hour's meditation every morning and evening ; fasting on all Fridays and also on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 14 September till Easter, abstinence during Advent and Lent, and various works of mortification, devotion, and charity.

Six months later Evelyn wrote to a friend complaining " I have let my house to Captain Benbow, and have the mortification of seeing everyday much of my former labours and expenses there impairing for want of a more polite tenant.

He experienced the mortification of seeing Protestantism also favoured by other members of his family.

" A self-idea of this sort seems to have three principled elements: the imagination of our appearance to the other person ; the imagination of his judgment of that appearance ; and some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification.

Although these and more verses are commonly used to justify the practise of mortification of the flesh by some Christians, it is most likely that the apostle Paul was referring to fasting and prayer as the means to discipline one's desires, passions and concupiscence.

The mystical philosophy of the Baal Shem Tov rejected the earlier emphasis on mortification of the body in Musar and Kabbalistic traditions, seeing the greater spiritual advantage in transforming the material into a vehicle for holiness, rather than breaking it.

In some cultures, extreme practices such as mortification of the flesh or painful rites of passage are highly regarded.

Sometimes there is a whole passion play, sometimes only the mortification of the flesh.

He then died of gangrene of the bone and mortification of the wound.

His death is attributed by sources used by John Tzetzes to another mortification of the same nature: in this case, the two soothsayers, jealous of each other's fame, came to a different trial of their skill in divination.

Common forms of mortification includes flagellation, in imitation of Jesus Christ's suffering and death by crucifixion.

In its simplest form, mortification of the flesh can mean merely denying oneself certain pleasures, such as abstaining from alcoholic beverages, internet, porn, or any area of life that takes the place of god.

Traditional forms of physical mortification are the cilice and hair-shirts.

The root of the modern-day perplexity over mortification, according to some theologians, is the " practical denial of God ," a denial of any but material realities.

Michael Geisler, a priest of the Opus Dei Prelature in St. Louis, wrote two articles explaining the theological purpose behind corporal mortification.

It has been speculated that extreme practices of mortification of the flesh may be used to obtain altered states of consciousness to achieve spiritual experiences or visions.

In some contexts, modern practices of body modification and plastic surgery overlap with mortification.

Some canonized Christians and founders of Christian religious organizations practiced mortification in order to imitate Christ.

The practice of mortification of the flesh for religious purposes was utilized by some Christians throughout most of Christian history, especially in Catholic monasteries and convents.

Whether Handel originally intended to perform Messiah in Dublin is uncertain ; he did not inform Jennens of any such plan, for the latter wrote to Holdsworth on 2 December 1741: "... it was some mortification to me to hear that instead of performing Messiah here he has gone into Ireland with it.

The Protestant reformer John Calvin said that repentance " may be justly defined to be “ a true conversion of our life to God, proceeding from a serious fear of God, and consisting in the mortification of the flesh and of the old man, and in the vivification of the Spirit .” He further said that " it will be useful to amplify and explain the definition we have given ; in which there are three points to be particularly considered.

" It remains for us, in the third place, to explain our position, that repentance consists of two parts — the mortification of the flesh and the vivification of the spirit.

whence she would still come forth, with a countenance of undissembled mortification.