An historical account of the diocese of Down and Connor, ancient and modern, 2. kötet

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J. Duffy, 1880
 

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213. oldal - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
176. oldal - At the expiration of this time however, as they were agreeably drinking and making merry, Brian, his brother, and his wife, were seized upon by the Earl and all his people put unsparingly to the sword, men, women, youths, and maidens, in Brian's own presence. Brian was afterwards sent to Dublin, together with his wife and brother, where they were cut in quarters.
300. oldal - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose...
lxxv. oldal - He had, perhaps, more to do with my conversion than any one else. He called upon me, in passing through Oxford in the summer of 1841, and I think I took him over some of the buildings of the University. He called again another summer, on his way from Dublin to London. I do not recollect that he said a word on the subject of religion on either occasion.
87. oldal - We Irish, who inhabit the extremities of the world, are the disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul, and of the other apostles who have written under dictation of the Holy Spirit. We receive nothing more than the apostolic and evangelical doctrine. There has never been either a heretic, a Jew, or a schismatic among us.
300. oldal - They used to place him that shall be their captain upon a stone always reserved for that purpose, and placed commonly upon a hill ; in some of which I have seen formed and engraven a foot, which they say was the measure of their first captain's foot, whereon he, standing, received an oath to preserve all the ancient former customs of the country inviolable...
374. oldal - ... miles of Carrickfergus, and that the whole country was clear, without a man to be seen. Upon this advice, the guards were all discharged except the ordinary watch ; and the officers, who had been all night upon duty, retired to their rest. About an hour after...
69. oldal - AD 1367. declared that no mere Irishman should be allowed to make his profession in a religious house situated amongst the English. This enactment extended to the abbey of Bangor, and after that the race, to which Comgall, Columbanus, and Gall belonged, was to be excluded from the cloisters they had sanctified ; and the rich endowments, which the piety of the Irish had consecrated to religion, were given to foreigners.
225. oldal - Carrickfergus, where her husband was ; sometime to bring in clothes, sometime drink, sometime meat, and never, almost, without some appearance of a good errand. At last, she had appointed a boat to come from Bangor, which, being light, might even come under the castle, and receive Con out at a window at a certain hour, and thus to effect it. For one day she came into the chamber with two big cheeses, the meat being neatly taken out, and filled with cords, well packed in, and the holes handsomely...
57. oldal - Time for me to prepare to pass from the shelter of a habitation, To journey as a pilgrim over the surface of the noble, lively sea. Time to depart from the snares of the flesh, with all its guilt, Time now to ruminate how I may find the Great Son of Mary. Time to seek virtue, to trample upon the will with sorrow, Time to reject vices, and to renounce the Demon. Time to reproach the body, for of its crime it is putrid, Time to rest after we have reached the place wherein we may shed our tears. Time...

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