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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... things , especially in religion , they were enthusiasts , and willingly inter- mingled the Christian worship with their poetry and literature , which was perhaps the most cultivated in all western Europe . Their island possessed a ...
... things , especially in religion , they were enthusiasts , and willingly inter- mingled the Christian worship with their poetry and literature , which was perhaps the most cultivated in all western Europe . Their island possessed a ...
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... thing to subdue a nation . Have not the Goths , and the Huns , and the Turks , and the Tartars , done this ? But to give refuge ' ' Hist . France , ' b . i . c . iv . to many people , to instruct many nations - these 10 RELIGIOUS ...
... thing to subdue a nation . Have not the Goths , and the Huns , and the Turks , and the Tartars , done this ? But to give refuge ' ' Hist . France , ' b . i . c . iv . to many people , to instruct many nations - these 10 RELIGIOUS ...
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... things were done in a country like modern France , or England , or even Ireland at the present day , with an industrious population counted by millions , and large stores of national wealth , we might be well astonished . But the ...
... things were done in a country like modern France , or England , or even Ireland at the present day , with an industrious population counted by millions , and large stores of national wealth , we might be well astonished . But the ...
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... thing that Dr. Todd can find which at all resembles a diocese is indicated in the following words : The district which owed allegiance to the chieftain , and was inhabited by his followers , became the proper field of labour to his ...
... thing that Dr. Todd can find which at all resembles a diocese is indicated in the following words : The district which owed allegiance to the chieftain , and was inhabited by his followers , became the proper field of labour to his ...
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... thing . ' 6 The monastic institutions , or clan - churches , were mutually independent and perfectly free from external authority , although they made repeated attempts to establish common rules of disci- pline , and to be so far united ...
... thing . ' 6 The monastic institutions , or clan - churches , were mutually independent and perfectly free from external authority , although they made repeated attempts to establish common rules of disci- pline , and to be so far united ...
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