 European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which I have been long acquainted ; as we see them in the most authentic records of antiquity discharging, with...  Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh - Page xlivby James Stuart - 1819 - 651 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1803 - 606 pages
...the sciences beyond all the other European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which I have long been acquainted, as we see them, in the most authentic records of antiquity, discharging,... | |
 | Johann Lorenz von Mosheim - 1810 - 602 pages
...the sciences beyond all the other European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which I have long been acquainted, as we see them, in the most authentic records of antiquity, discharging... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 pages
...at the expense of truth- Mosheim, in his Ecclesiastical history of the eighth century, says, — " that the Hibernians were lovers of learning, and distinguished...sciences beyond all other European nations ; travelling through thej most distant lands with a view to improve, and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...celebrated 'preachers.' The college of Lismore, in particular, attracted scholars from all parts of Europe. That the Hibernians were lovers of learning, and distinguished...of the sciences, beyond all other European nations, is referred to by Mosheira as an incomestible fact ; and he adds, on the contemporary testimony of... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1824 - 538 pages
...the sciences beyond all the other European nations, travelling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and to communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which I have long been acquainted, as we see them, in the most authentic records of antiquity, discharging,... | |
 | Patrick Fitzgerald - 1826 - 474 pages
...period is further confirmed by Mosheim, who speaks of them in the following highly honourable terms.—" That the Hibernians were lovers of learning and distinguished...the most distant lands with a view to improve and communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which we have been long acquainted, as we see them in the... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - Church history - 1826 - 580 pages
...and exploded by all other nations."' m That the Hibernians, who were called Scots in this century, were lovers of learning, and distinguished themselves,...ignorance, by the culture of the sciences beyond all the other European nations, traveling through the most distant lands, both with a view to improve and... | |
 | 1832 - 872 pages
...étoient d'Iraland," says Scaliger the younger ; while Mosheim (Eccl. Hist, century 8.) observes, " the Hibernians were lovers of learning, and distinguished themselves in those times of ignorance (the dark ages) by the culture of the sciences, beyond all other nations, travelling to the most distant... | |
 | Richard Murray - 1840 - 194 pages
...is further confirmed by Mosheim, who speaks of them in the following highly honourable terms, —' That the Hibernians were lovers of learning, and distinguished...the most distant lands with a view to improve and communicate their knowledge, is a fact with which we have been long acquainted, as we see them in the... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1853 - 654 pages
...higher. The excellent author of the Ecclesiastical History says of Ireland in the eighth century : " That the Hibernians were lovers of learning, and distinguished...the most distant lands with a view to improve and communicate their knowledge — is a fact with which I have been long acquainted, as we see them in... | |
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