 | John Stewart McCorry - 1871 - 214 pages
...the observance of Easter, by reason of their being so far away from the rest of the world ; wherefore they only practised such works of piety and chastity...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical -writings. This manner of keeping Easter continued among them for the space of 150 years, till the year of our... | |
 | John Stewart M'Corry - 1871 - 208 pages
...the observance of Easter, by reason of their being so far away from the rest of the world ; wherefore they only practised such works of piety and chastity...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings. This manner of keeping Easter continued among them for the space of 150 years, till the year of our... | |
 | William Cathcart - 1872 - 496 pages
...observance of monastic rules. " By reason of their being so far away from the rest of the world," he says, " they only practised such works of piety and chastity...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings." Well would it have been for Christians of all ages if they had learned their faith and practice from... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 580 pages
...and Columbanus, and the time of the Synod of Cashel! Then, the saints of the country practised only " such works of piety and chastity as they could learn...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings;" 1 now, these prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings were seldom mentioned. Then, it was... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 572 pages
...Columbanus, and the time of the Synod of Cashel ! Then, the saints of the country practised only " such works of piety and chastity as they could learn...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings;" 1 now, these prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings were seldom mentioned. Then, it was... | |
 | William Dool Killen - 1875 - 574 pages
...Columbanus, and the time of the Synod of Cashel ! Then, the saints of the country practised only " such works of piety and chastity as they could learn...from the prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings;"1 now, these prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings were seldom mentioned. Then,... | |
 | 1876 - 836 pages
...and C'olumbanus and the time of the Synod of Cashel ! Then the saints of the country practised oidy such works of piety and chastity as they could learn...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings ; now these writings were seldom mentioned. . . . Then the presbyter Columbkille ordained a king as... | |
 | james nisbet - 1877 - 824 pages
...far away from the rest of the world, they had none to bring them the synodal decrees," " wherefore they only practised such works of piety and chastity...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings." This testimony from a Catholic writer like Bede might at first sight appear to justify even such views... | |
 | Joseph Irving - 1879 - 434 pages
...the north, as Bede says, there were apostles " who loved not anything of this world, and who daily practised such works of piety and chastity as they...could learn from the prophetical, evangelical, and apostolic writings." But in the south, there was a class whose reading savoured more of St. Gregory,... | |
 | Elisabeth Wilson - 1881 - 384 pages
..." They followed uncertain rules in the observation of the great festival (Easter), practising only such works of piety and chastity as they could learn...prophetical, evangelical, and apostolical writings." (Ecdes. Hist., b. iii., c. 4, ยง 160.) "True," says Ledwich, "they did not adopt the corruptions and... | |
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It is true they followed uncertain rules in their observance of the great festival, as having none to bring them the synodal decrees for the observance of Easter, by reason of their being so far away from the rest of the world ; wherefore they only practised... 
