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... authority on which this opinion is made to rest , appears to be a quotation or two taken from the prologue which St. Jerome has prefixed to his Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah . The testimony of such an an- cient and exalted ...
... authority on which this opinion is made to rest , appears to be a quotation or two taken from the prologue which St. Jerome has prefixed to his Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah . The testimony of such an an- cient and exalted ...
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... authority . Without recurring to those numerous writers who have been appealed to by Ussher , we shall content ourselves with the testimony of one very ancient and learned father of the Church ; a man who flourished in the days of ...
... authority . Without recurring to those numerous writers who have been appealed to by Ussher , we shall content ourselves with the testimony of one very ancient and learned father of the Church ; a man who flourished in the days of ...
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... authority of numberless ancient and modern ecclesiastical writers , all of whom maintain that Pelagius had been a native of Britain . + According to Marian Gorman the territory called the Fohartha was like- wise known by the name of Hy ...
... authority of numberless ancient and modern ecclesiastical writers , all of whom maintain that Pelagius had been a native of Britain . + According to Marian Gorman the territory called the Fohartha was like- wise known by the name of Hy ...
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... authority hold , that he received his birth in Armoric Gaul , and in that part of it which is now called Boulogne ... authorities . " My father , " says the Saint , " was Calpornius , a deacon , son of Potitus , a priest , of the town ...
... authority hold , that he received his birth in Armoric Gaul , and in that part of it which is now called Boulogne ... authorities . " My father , " says the Saint , " was Calpornius , a deacon , son of Potitus , a priest , of the town ...
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... authority ; it is , however , certain that Auxilius and Iserninus , || two priests of great zeal and piety , were selected to accompany him , and had some years after been promoted to the episcopacy by our Saint himself . In the year ...
... authority ; it is , however , certain that Auxilius and Iserninus , || two priests of great zeal and piety , were selected to accompany him , and had some years after been promoted to the episcopacy by our Saint himself . In the year ...
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Page 425 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 425 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 400 - This order, good brethren, is from our gracious king, and from the rest of our brethren, the fathers and clergy of England, who have consulted herein, and compared the holy Scriptures with what they have done; unto whom I submit, as Jesus did to Caesar, in all things just and lawful, making no question why or wherefore, as we own him our true and lawful king...
Page 166 - That is well said," observed Bonner ; " I see you are no anabaptist. How say you then to the presence of Christ's body and blood, in the sacrament of the altar...
Page 238 - set forth Henry's right to the sovereignty of Ireland in virtue of the Pope's authority, and inculcated the necessity of obeying him under pain of excommunication'. The English were not yet eight years in Ireland, the greater part of the country was still closed to them, but already the Irish were being excommunicated for refusing to become slaves. In Ireland, as in all Catholic countries...
Page 502 - Ireland, and for many other impediments (of which affidavit was made), I could not at the end of five weeks get the records and witnesses brought hither; I therefore begged for twelve days more, that I might be in readiness for my trial, which the Lord Chief Justice refused...
Page 358 - And, lest the writing should perish with the writer, and the work should fail with the workman, I leave behind me parchment for continuing it, if any man should have the good fortune. to survive this calamity, or any one of the race of Adam should escape this pestilence, and live to continue what I have begun.
Page 365 - England and his heirs for ever, and by which grant the people of Ireland owe their obedience to the King of England, as their sovereign lord — it is therefore ordained that all Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland shall, upon the monition of forty days, proceed to the excommunication of all disobedient subjects ; and if such Archbishops or Bishops be remiss in discharging their duty in the premises, they shall henceforth be liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds.
Page 71 - Apostles. For, as I have already said, we are attached to the chair of St. Peter ; and although Rome is great and renowned, yet with us it is great and distinguished only on account of that apostolic chair.
Page 425 - Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of...