Dissertations Chiefly on Irish Church History

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J. Duffy, 1864 - 448 стор.

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Сторінка 55 - It is a thing plainly repugnant to the Word of God, and the custom of the Primitive Church, to have public Prayer in the Church, or to minister the Sacraments in a tongue not understanded of the people.
Сторінка 178 - ... other side of the chapel are a number of smaller cells, which were only large enough to contain each a single person. They are but six feet long, three feet wide, and four feet high, and most of them are now covered with rubbish. These formed a Laura, like the habitations of the Egyptian ascetics. There is also a covered gallery, or passage, twentyfour feet long, four feet wide, and four feet six inches high, and its entrance doorway is but two feet three inches square. The use of this it is...
Сторінка 321 - I did expect that you would enter into consideration of the lamentable state of our poor country, most tyrannically oppressed, and of your own gentle consciences, in maintaining, relieving and helping the enemies of God and our country in wars infallibly tending to the promotion of heresy...
Сторінка 331 - But your Majesty may believe it, that upon the face of the earth where Christ is professed, there is not a church in so miserable a case. The misery of which consisteth in these three particulars : the ruin of the very temples themselves ; the want of good ministers to serve in them when they shall be re-edified ; competent living for the ministers being well chosen.
Сторінка 184 - The walls of these churches are always perpendicular, and generally formed of very large polygonal stones carefully adjusted to each other, both on the inner and outer faces, while their interior is filled up with rubble and grouting. In the smaller churches the roofs were frequently formed of stone, but in the larger ones were always of wood, covered with shingles, straw, reeds, and, perhaps sometimes, with lead.
Сторінка 86 - May the last of the English rest in peace: For they had often said, That as they esteemed him the best of the English Bishops, so he should be the last that should be left among them.
Сторінка 179 - ... outlet is formed, which turned a small mill : and, along the west side of this lake, there is an artificial stone path or causeway two hundred and twenty yards in length, which leads to another stone cell or house, of an oval form, at the south side of the valley in which the monastery is situated. This house is eighteen feet long and nine wide, and there is a small walled enclosure joined to it, which was probably a garden. There is also adjoining to it a stone altar surmounted by a cross, and...
Сторінка 87 - offered us no violence — save in the night, when our men were weary with continual watching, they would steal away a good horse, and run off — but were very civil to us all the way, and many of them wept at our parting from them, that had lived so long and peaceably amongst them, as if we had been one people with them.
Сторінка 204 - Lights were kept burning in them diiring the night. At least such was the fact with respect to the new tower at Winchester, which, we learn from Wolstan, consisted of five stories, in each of which were four windows looking towards the four cardinal points, that were illuminated every night.
Сторінка 328 - Sundays, so that many came to church rather than they would pay the tax, which was accurately collected. At first they went to mass in the morning, and to church in the afternoon ; but afterwards, to prevent that evasion, a roll of the house-keepers...

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