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Page 310 - Allister had prepossessed with those thousand or twelve hundred brave foot that he had with him, I think he might have ruined us, at least we should not have entered Kintyre (but by a miracle); but he was ordained for destruction, for, by a...
Page 7 - is no longer to be gazed at as a distant glimmering star, but as a great planet, that has obtruded itself into our system, whose place is yet undetermined, but whose motions must powerfully affect those of every other orb.
Page 55 - Lord at the hands of the priests, and promised to do all kinds of good works, as their clergy would order them, and that their standard in going forth to any battle should be the crosier of Columkille.
Page 179 - England was neuer that can be heard of, fuller of people than it is at this day, and the dissolution of Abbayes hath done two things of importance heerin. It hath doubled the number of gentlemen and marriages, whereby...
Page 20 - ... absolutely perfect in all them books, by reason that they lost the estates they had to uphold their publique teaching, and that the nobility of the Irish line, who would encourage and support their posterity, lost all their estates too, so that the antiquaryes posterity were forced to follow husbandry, etc., to get their bread, for want of patrons to support them.
Page 22 - Clonmacnois it is stated that 'he (Columba) wrote three hundred books with his own hand . . . which books have a strange property, which is that if they or any of them had sunk to the bottom of the deepest waters they would not lose one letter, or sign, or character of them, which I have seen tried, partly by myself on that book of them which is at Dorowe.
Page 38 - Far westward lies an isle of ancient fame, By nature blessed, and Scotia is her name, Enrolled in books ; exhaustless is her store Of veiny silver and of golden ore; Her fruitful soil for ever teems with wealth, With gems her waters, and her air with health; Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow, Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, . And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
Page 172 - It is in the middle of a square before the parish church, which evidently formed part of the ancient cemetery, for it is almost completely paved with tombstones. Four square windows, turned towards the east, west, north, and south, open, under its roof, at the summit of the tower ; it was there the light was placed : the door was at some distance from the ground.
Page 37 - ... and they paid half an ounce for their vases (Betham's ' Irish Antiq. Researches,' p. 398). Cogitosus, a writer of the sixth century, as Colgan, Ware, O'Connor and others assert, or of the earlier part of the ninth as Dr. Lanigan thinks, describes the monuments of St. Bridget and Conlaeth at Kildare as ornamented with gold and silver gems, and precious stones, with crowns of gold and silver suspended from above ('Trias. Thaum.,' p. 523). In the reign of Hugh (AD 580) the bards carried their rampant...
Page 55 - Lochlanns fought a battle. Bravely indeed the men of Alba fought this battle, for Columkille was aiding them ; for they had prayed to him most fervently, because he was their apostle, and it was through him that they received the faith. One time, when Imhar Coming was a young man, he came to Alba, with three great battalions, to plunder it.