The Religious History of Ireland: Primitive, Papal and Protestant Including the Evangelical Missions, Catholic Agitations, and Church Progress of the Last Half-centuryKing, 1873 - 313 pages |
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... LETTER TO THE AUTHOR . ' We do not exaggerate when we say that Dr. Macaulay has rendered a public service in writing it . Half - a - dozen " Commissious on the present state of Ireland " would not have resulted in the collection of more ...
... LETTER TO THE AUTHOR . ' We do not exaggerate when we say that Dr. Macaulay has rendered a public service in writing it . Half - a - dozen " Commissious on the present state of Ireland " would not have resulted in the collection of more ...
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... letters and documents re- lating to the topography , language , history , antiquities , produc- tions , and social state of every county . Various pretexts were 1 Notes on the Life of Dr. Petrie , ' Preface . made for suddenly stopping ...
... letters and documents re- lating to the topography , language , history , antiquities , produc- tions , and social state of every county . Various pretexts were 1 Notes on the Life of Dr. Petrie , ' Preface . made for suddenly stopping ...
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... letters from the Pagans they subdued to whom labour was degradation - who were always content to dwell in huts made of wood ; whose places of worship , even the most ancient and celebrated , were constructed of the same material ; whose ...
... letters from the Pagans they subdued to whom labour was degradation - who were always content to dwell in huts made of wood ; whose places of worship , even the most ancient and celebrated , were constructed of the same material ; whose ...
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... letter T. " With such a mass of evidence to prove the veneration for the Cross entertained in the ancient days of heathenism , and the primeval tradition of the Crucifixion itself , it is not surprising that crosses should be found in ...
... letter T. " With such a mass of evidence to prove the veneration for the Cross entertained in the ancient days of heathenism , and the primeval tradition of the Crucifixion itself , it is not surprising that crosses should be found in ...
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... letters , recording the deeds and hopes of kings , bishops and abbots , buried a thousand years ago , lying about broken , neglected and dishonoured . ' The sculptured cross which stands near the door of McDermott's church is , if not ...
... letters , recording the deeds and hopes of kings , bishops and abbots , buried a thousand years ago , lying about broken , neglected and dishonoured . ' The sculptured cross which stands near the door of McDermott's church is , if not ...
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