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... In the year 521 there was born , somewhere in Ireland , a child who was destined to leave the im- press of his mind for centuries upon the countries where his influence was known . It was COLUM , 8 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
... In the year 521 there was born , somewhere in Ireland , a child who was destined to leave the im- press of his mind for centuries upon the countries where his influence was known . It was COLUM , 8 HEROES FOR THE TRUTH .
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... mind was strongly turned towards the western parts of Scotland . He ac- cordingly left his native country , perhaps about his twenty - seventh year ; but even then his energetic character had stamped itself on all with whom he had held ...
... mind was strongly turned towards the western parts of Scotland . He ac- cordingly left his native country , perhaps about his twenty - seventh year ; but even then his energetic character had stamped itself on all with whom he had held ...
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... mind were intensely bent . There was no printing then , and no copy of the word of God could be obtained , but such as had been copied by men's hands . Columba himself became a devoted copyist of Scripture , both that he might set an ...
... mind were intensely bent . There was no printing then , and no copy of the word of God could be obtained , but such as had been copied by men's hands . Columba himself became a devoted copyist of Scripture , both that he might set an ...
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... mind into contact with God's truth ; that done , Columba felt that a heavenly influence was employed to promote a ... minds might encounter as ene- mies . Under the fostering care of such a man , Iona became so famous as a place for ...
... mind into contact with God's truth ; that done , Columba felt that a heavenly influence was employed to promote a ... minds might encounter as ene- mies . Under the fostering care of such a man , Iona became so famous as a place for ...
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... mind the age , the hinderances and trials of this man's lot , there is scarcely a greater wonder in the history of the past than the influence of Iona under its great missionary Columba . But all humanizing influences , as well as those ...
... mind the age , the hinderances and trials of this man's lot , there is scarcely a greater wonder in the history of the past than the influence of Iona under its great missionary Columba . But all humanizing influences , as well as those ...
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Seite 147 - All sacrifices do but speed forward that great day, when the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Seite 110 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.
Seite 65 - ... pernicious books, detest them, abhor them, keep them not in your hands, deliver them to the superiors, such as call for them ; and if, by reading of them heretofore, any thing...
Seite 106 - ... his handful of clay ; though his living groups, his crawling reptiles, his 'slimy snails, his slippery frogs, his lively lizards, and his damp herbs and dripping mosses had never adorned those dishes...
Seite 60 - Some man will ask, peradventure, Why I take the labour to make this work, inasmuch as they will burn it, seeing they burnt the Gospel? I answer, In burning the New Testament they did none other thing than that I looked for ; no more shall they do if they burn me also, if it be God's will it shall so be.
Seite 54 - I had no man to counterfeit, neither was helped with English of any that had interpreted the same or such like thing in the scripture beforetime.
Seite 53 - if it would stand with the king's most gracious pleasure, to grant only a bare text of the scriptures to be put forth among his people...
Seite 54 - ... to affirm that good is the natural cause of evil, and darkness to proceed out of light, and that lying should be grounded in truth and verity ; and not rather clean contrary, that light destroyeth darkness, and verity reproveth all manner of lying.
Seite 147 - Thou gav'st me milk and sweetnesses ; I had my wish and way : My days were strewed with flowers and happiness : There was no month but May.