The History of Ireland to the Coming of Henry II.Unwin, 1908 - 434 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 381 - Pope, not only the above-mentioned palace, but also the city of Rome and all the provinces, districts and cities of Italy and the Western regions, relinquishing them to the authority of himself and his successors as Pontiffs by a definite Imperial grant.
الصفحة 202 - ... not to quail before a troop of frenzied women, they bore the standards onwards, smote down all resistance, and wrapped the foe in the flames of his own brands. A force was next set over the conquered, and their groves, devoted to inhuman superstitions, were destroyed. They deemed it indeed a duty to cover their altars with the blood of captives and to consult their deities through human entrails.
الصفحة 247 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is...
الصفحة 152 - Victorious coming as it were from Ireland with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of the letter, which was entitled, The Voice of the Irish...
الصفحة 357 - ... to take care of souls; and they were so free from worldly avarice that none of them received lands and possessions for building monasteries, unless they were compelled to do so by the temporal authorities ; which custom was for some time after observed in all the churches of the Northumbrians.
الصفحة 348 - The classic tradition, to all appearance dead in Europe, burst out into full flower in the Isle of Saints, and the Renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. During three centuries Ireland was the asylum of the higher learning which took sanctuary there from the uncultured states of Europe. At one time Armagh, the religious capital of Christian Ireland, was the metropolis of civilisation.
الصفحة 248 - King of the Country, and who was chosen by a general assembly of the chiefs of the different provinces ; but this elective president of the national confederation, swore to the whole nation, the same oath which the chiefs of the tribes swore to their respective tribes— that of inviolably observing the ancient laws and hereditary customs.
الصفحة 30 - Tis there was the king-idol of Erin, namely the Crom Croich, and around him twelve idols made of stones; but he was of gold. Until Patrick's advent, he was the god of every folk that colonized Ireland. To him they used to offer the firstlings of every issue and the chief scions of every clan.
الصفحة 241 - Secondly, we do profess that it is both known to us and our council here, and to our deputy and state there, and so shall it appear to the world, as clear as the sun, by evident proofs, that the only ground and motive of this high contempt in these men's departure, hath been the private knowledge and inward terror of their own guiltiness.
الصفحة 263 - I that shall give it, said he, but yonder youth, pointing to Colman mac Comgellain. Colman then gave judgment ; and the decision that he gave was : Their expeditions and hostings to be with the men of Erin always, for hostings always belong to the parent stock. Their tributes, and gains, and shipping to be with the men of Alba. And when one of the men of Erin or Alba should come from the east, the Dal Riada to entertain them, whether few or many : and the Dal Riada to convey them on, if they require...