 | Books - 1774 - 690 pages
...the labours of the Irifh clergy were not confined to their own country. Their miffionaries were fcnt to the continent. They converted heathens, they confirmed believers, they erected convents', they eftabliihed fchools of learning ; they taught the ufe of letters to the 'Saxons and Normans, they converted... | |
 | History - 1803 - 598 pages
...of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But the labours of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...they confirmed believers, they erected convents, they esablished schools of learning ; they taught the use of letters to the Saxons and Normans, they converted... | |
 | Harriet Catherine Egerton Countess of Ellesmere - Ireland - 1829 - 286 pages
...nations. The labours of the Irish clergy did not terminate here ; they sent missionaries to the continent; they taught the use of letters to the Saxons and Normans ; they converted the Picts to Christianity ; they established schools in Germany, and elsewhere; and Europe gratefully confessed... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But the labors of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...instructions ; and Europe with gratitude confessed the supe* rior knowledge, the piety, the zeal, the purity of the ' Island of Saints.' Such are the events... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1843 - 576 pages
...dangerous and remote. They converted the heathen, and established and confirmed the wavering christians. They taught the use of letters to the Saxons and Normans. They converted the Picts. Burgundy, Germany, and other countries, received their instructions, and Europe rejoiced in the communicated... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1844 - 512 pages
...dangerous and remote. They converted the heathen, and established and confirmed the wavering Christians. They taught the use of letters to the Saxons and Normans. They converted the Picts. Burgundy, Germany, and other countries, received their instructions, and Europe rejoiced in the communicated... | |
 | Thomas MacNevin - 1846 - 266 pages
...of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But the labours of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...Normans, they converted the Picts by the preaching of Cohimb-kill, one of their renowned ecclesiastics : Burgundy, Germany, and other countries received... | |
 | Thomas MacNevin - Great Britain - 1846 - 268 pages
...of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But the labours of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...of learning ; they taught the use of letters to the Saxong and Normans, they converted the Picts by the preaching of Columb-kill, one of their renowned... | |
 | 1898 - 534 pages
...a kind of Hesperian elysium of peace and piety." " The labors of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...Normans, they converted the Picts by the preaching of Columb Kill, one of their renowned ecclesiastics. Burgundy, Germany and other countries, received their... | |
 | Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association - Deerfield (Mass.) - 1898 - 530 pages
...a kind of Hesperian elysium of peace and piety." " The labors of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent...Normans, they converted the Picts by the preaching of Columb Kill, one of their renowned ecclesiastics. Burgundy, Germany and other countries, received their... | |
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... to this seat of learning ; nor is it improbable or surprising, that seven thousand students studied at Armagh, agreeably to the accounts of Irish writers, though the seminary of Armagh was but one of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But... 