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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... me from giving utterance to all I that know of your unaffected zeal , - cultivated mind , and unostentatious piety . Whosoever would have evidence that these high virtues eminently exist in you , need but look to your church.
... me from giving utterance to all I that know of your unaffected zeal , - cultivated mind , and unostentatious piety . Whosoever would have evidence that these high virtues eminently exist in you , need but look to your church.
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... piety , and the scenic amusements , to you so fascinating , and which you loved to exhibit , eschewed everything that was ludicrous , and had for their plot some passage taken from Sacred History . Verily , from the cradle to hoary ...
... piety , and the scenic amusements , to you so fascinating , and which you loved to exhibit , eschewed everything that was ludicrous , and had for their plot some passage taken from Sacred History . Verily , from the cradle to hoary ...
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... piety rest content with this , but , taking a loftier flight , wonderfully did you increase the worship of the most holy Sacrament , by establishing in Galway that sacred sodality , in which people of every sex and age , from the ...
... piety rest content with this , but , taking a loftier flight , wonderfully did you increase the worship of the most holy Sacrament , by establishing in Galway that sacred sodality , in which people of every sex and age , from the ...
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... piety , sparkling and glowing in your youthhood , belong to you alone ; devotion has ever been the marked characteristic of that family of which you come . It is the glory of the Curii , that their family gave three distinguished ...
... piety , sparkling and glowing in your youthhood , belong to you alone ; devotion has ever been the marked characteristic of that family of which you come . It is the glory of the Curii , that their family gave three distinguished ...
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... piety and science , to rescue the souls of your fellow- citizens from the snares and machinations of the heretic . As for me , you will place me under additional obligation , if you , who are so well able to attest the truth of what I ...
... piety and science , to rescue the souls of your fellow- citizens from the snares and machinations of the heretic . As for me , you will place me under additional obligation , if you , who are so well able to attest the truth of what I ...
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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.