...The accounts tranfmitted to us of the a&s of Saint Patrick bear all the marks of legendary fi&ion, and appear no better founded than thofe of other fabulous...of Europe in the dark ages. Whoever were the happy inflrutnents in the plant/ ing of chriftianity in Ireland, their progrefs appears to have been flow...

...name of fo great a miffioner, if it had ever reached them. The accounts tranfmitted to us of the a&s of Saint Patrick bear all the marks of legendary fiction,...patron faints, has been feverally adopted, from the cuflom of the times, by the chriftian nations of Europe in the dark ages. Whoever were the happy inftruments...

...name of so great a missioner, if it had ever reached them. The accounts transmitted to us of the act'a of Saint Patrick bear all the marks of legendary fiction, and appear no better founded than those of other fabulous champions of th< church, whose tutelage, a:, patron saints, has been severally...

...name of so great a missioner if it had ever reached them. The accounts transmitted to us of the acts of Saint Patrick bear all the marks of legendary fiction, and appear no better founded than those of other fabulous champions of the Church, whose tutelage, as patron saints, has been severally...