The Portrait of a Pious Bishop, Or, The Life and Death of the Most Reverend Francis Kirwan, Bishop of KillalaJ. Duffy, 1848 - 198 pages |
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Page vi
... blessings that must permanently flow from the wise and benevolent policy of our illustrious Metropolitan ? It would ill become me to particularize the virtues which adorn your character . Your sensitiveness would be pained did I essay ...
... blessings that must permanently flow from the wise and benevolent policy of our illustrious Metropolitan ? It would ill become me to particularize the virtues which adorn your character . Your sensitiveness would be pained did I essay ...
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... blessed teaching you so copiously imbibed and planted in the depths of your bosom- -so much so , that whatever is related of him in this little book , if we change but the name , may be told of you , who are the living image of him whom ...
... blessed teaching you so copiously imbibed and planted in the depths of your bosom- -so much so , that whatever is related of him in this little book , if we change but the name , may be told of you , who are the living image of him whom ...
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... blessed memory , pointed you out to his clergy assembled in Synod , as the archetype to whose similitude they should shape their lives ; and indeed it was just that you , who were held up as a model to a foreign flock , should in time ...
... blessed memory , pointed you out to his clergy assembled in Synod , as the archetype to whose similitude they should shape their lives ; and indeed it was just that you , who were held up as a model to a foreign flock , should in time ...
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... blessed table . With words of fire did you inflame the hearts of your fellow - citizens , ceaselessly adjuring them to stand valiantly up in defence of their Catholic faith and country . Like Job's , your eloquence strengthened the ...
... blessed table . With words of fire did you inflame the hearts of your fellow - citizens , ceaselessly adjuring them to stand valiantly up in defence of their Catholic faith and country . Like Job's , your eloquence strengthened the ...
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... blessings of splendid success , we ought to share it with our fellows , and communicate it to our neighbours . " It is true , beyond doubt , that out of evil often cometh good ; and those who have been proscribed in their own land ...
... blessings of splendid success , we ought to share it with our fellows , and communicate it to our neighbours . " It is true , beyond doubt , that out of evil often cometh good ; and those who have been proscribed in their own land ...
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Page 99 - But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth: That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.
Page 147 - The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
Page viii - Dreams, that the soul of youth engage Ere Fancy has been quelled ; Old legends of the monkish page, Traditions of the saint and sage, Tales that have the rime of age, And chronicles of Eld.
Page 178 - The soile is almost paved over with stones', soe as, in some places, nothing is to be seen but large stones with wide openings between them, where cattle break their legs. Scarce any other stones there but limestones, and marble fit for tomb-stones, chymney mantle trees, and high crosses. Among these stones is very sweet pasture, so that beefe, veal, mutton are better and earlyer in season here, then elsewhere; and of late there is plenty of cheese, and tillage mucking, and corn is the same with...
Page 178 - They have Cloghans, a kind of building of stones layd one upon another, which are brought to a roof without any manner of mortar to cement them, some of which cabins will hold forty men on their floor ; so antient that nobody knows how long ago any of them was made. Scarcity of wood and store of fit stones, without peradventure found out the first invention.
Page 174 - Institutions, and a few other parings of these two faculties. I have seen them where they kept school, ten in some one chamber, grovelling upon...
Page 174 - ... he saw, at one view, the blessed sacrament in the hands of the priest, boats passing up and down the river, a ship entering the port in full sail, a salmon killed with a spear, and hunters and hounds pursuing a deer ; upon which he observed, that although he had travelled the greatest part of Europe, he had never before witnessed a sight which combined so much variety and beauty.
Page 179 - ... The king, beholding him, immediately dismounted from his horse, trembling, and fell down at his feet, begging pardon for his offence ; for the bishop, who was likewise on horseback, had also alighted. Being much incensed, he touched the king, lying in that humble posture, with the rod he held in his hand, and using his pontifical authority, spoke thus : " I say to you, forasmuch as you would not refrain from the house of that wicked and condemned person, you shall die in that very house.
Page 177 - From year unto year, on the ocean's blue rim, The beautiful spectre showed lovely and dim ; The golden clouds curtained the deep where it lay, And it looked like an Eden,— away, far away...
Page 178 - ... by night, and with a candle light kill abundance of them. Here are severall wells and pooles, yet in extraordinary dry weather, people must turn their cattell out of the islands, and the corn failes. They have noe fuell but cow-dung dryed with the sun, unless they bring turf in from the western continent.