The Celts. (Conversion of the West).Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1878 - 189 من الصفحات |
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abbot Adamnan afterwards amongst ancient Apostle of Ireland Asaph Asia Minor baptism baptized became Bede biographer bishop brethren Britain Britons Broichan Brude Cadoc Cæsar called celebrated cell Celtic Churches Celts century chief chieftain Christ Christian faith clan Cloth boards coast colony Columba Confession consecrated converts Cormac Crown 8vo Cumbria Dalaradia Dalriada death devoted Dichu disciples Divine Druidic Druids earliest Easter ecclesiastical episcopal father Fcap Gaul Haddan and Stubbs heathen heaven Hilary of Arles History Holy holy orders influence Iona Irenæus Irish island Isle Jocelyn Kentigern king King Laoghaire labours land Laoghaire legend Loch Lord mission missionary monastery monastic monks native pagan parish Patrick Pictish Picts Post 8vo preached priest Reeve's religious Roman Rome sacred saint Scriptures shores Skene's Celtic Scotland society spirit stone synod Thence tion Todd's tonsure tribes Vita Wales Welsh West Western word worship
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الصفحة 98 - Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right...
الصفحة 96 - I bind to myself to-day, — The power of the love of Seraphim, In the obedience of Angels, In the hope of Resurrection unto reward, In the prayers of the noble Fathers, In the predictions of the Prophets, In the preaching of Apostles, In the faith of Confessors, In the purity of Holy Virgins, In the acts of righteous men.
الصفحة 53 - Britain was, indeed, only partly wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the long and merciless nature of the struggle, that of all the German conquests this proved the most thorough and complete. At its close Britain had become England, — a land, that is, not of Britons, but of Englishmen.
الصفحة 169 - Patrick as much from necessity as from a knowledge of the character and habits of the people. The chieftain once secured, the clan, as a matter of course, were disposed to follow in his steps. To attempt the conversion of the clan, in opposition to the will of the chieftain, would probably have been to rush upon inevitable death, or at the least to risk a violent expulsion from the district.
الصفحة 97 - I bind to myself to-day The power of Heaven, The light of the Sun, The whiteness of Snow, The force of Fire, The flashing of Lightning, The velocity of Wind, The depth of the Sea, The stability of the Earth, The hardness of Rocks.
الصفحة 9 - Alternately the scourge and the allies of each Asiatic prince in succession, as passion or interest dictated, they for a time indulged their predatory instincts unchecked.
الصفحة 73 - Victorious, bearing innumerable epistles. And he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of it, which contained the words,
الصفحة 158 - em to dig the ground above it, and we found a flat thin Stone covering the Urn ; it was almost full of Humane Bones, but no Head among them, and they were fair and dry. I enquir'd of the Natives what was become of the Heads, and they could not tell ; but one of them said, perhaps their Heads had been cut off with a two-handed Sword, and taken away by the Enemy.
الصفحة 53 - But the English conquest was a sheer dispossession and slaughter of the people whom the English conquered. In all the world-wide struggle between Rome and the German invaders no land was so stubbornly fought for or so hardly won. The conquest of Britain was indeed only partly wrought out after two centuries of bitter warfare. But it was just through the long and merciless nature of the struggle that of all the German conquests this proved the most thorough and complete.
الصفحة 122 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.