Lectures on the History of Ireland, Down to A. D. 1534

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Seite 42 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Seite 220 - Edward the second, no parliament be holden hereafter in the said land, but at such season as the king's lieutenant and council there first do certify the king, under the great seal of that land, the causes and considerations, and all such acts as them seemeth should pass in the same parliament, and such causes, considerations, and acts, affirmed by the king and his council...
Seite 71 - He sent professors and masters to teach wisdom and knowledge, and to buy books beyond the sea and the great ocean ; because their writings and their books, in every church and in every sanctuary where they were, were burned and thrown into the water by the plunderers, from the beginning to the end : and Brian himself gave the price of learning and the price of books to every one, separately, who went on this service...
Seite 78 - Then Earl Sigurd called on Thorstein the son of Hall of the Side, to bear the banner, and Thorstein was just about to lift the banner, but then Asmund the White said, "Don't bear the banner! For all they who bear it get their death.
Seite 104 - ... the west parts of the world ; the long inlets of many navigable rivers and so many great lakes and fresh ponds within the land, as the like are not to be seen in any part of Europe ; the rich fishings and wild-fowl of all kinds ; and lastly, the bodies and minds of the people endued with extraordinary abilities of nature.
Seite 106 - For the husbandman must first break the land before it be made capable of good seed: and when it is thoroughly broken and manured, if he do not forthwith cast good seed into it, it will grow wild again, and bear nothing but weeds. So a barbarous country must...
Seite 45 - She sent for him from his desert, and went herself to meet him. He agreed to her proposals, and she engaged him to govern the Church with her in episcopal dignity, that nothing of sacerdotal order should be wanting in her churches."1 His name appears to have been Aedh or Hugh, and was known as
Seite 212 - English contrary hereunto, that then it shall be lawful to every man to take them and their g'oods, as Irish enemies, and to ransom them as Irish enemies.
Seite 58 - Fair is the Lithe; so fair that it has never seemed to me so fair; the corn fields are white to harvest, and the home mead is mown; and now I will ride back home, and not fare abroad at all.
Seite 43 - ... success. It secured toleration at least for Christian institutions. It enabled Patrick to plant in every tribe his churches, schools, and monasteries. He was permitted without opposition to establish among the half pagan inhabitants of the country societies of holy men, whose devotion, usefulness, and piety soon produced an effect upon the most barbarous and savage hearts. This was the secret of the rapid success attributed to St. Patrick's preaching in Ireland. The chieftains were at first the...

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