 | Edmund Burke - 1774 - 606 pàgines
...teftimony," faith the elegant Lord Lyttelton, " not only to the learning, but " likewife to the hofpitality and " bounty of that nation !" A conflux of foreigners to a retired ifland, at a time when Europe was in ignorance and confufion, gave peculiar luftre to this feat of... | |
 | George Holmes - 1801 - 238 pàgines
...with books without fee or reward. " A most honourable testimony," says the elegant Lord Lyttleton, " not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty of that nation." O'CONNOR'S DISSERTATION. F 4 without without some difficulty, from its natural steepness, and from... | |
 | James Gordon - 1805 - 314 pàgines
...furnished them with books, without fee or reward: "a most honorable testimony," says Lord Lyttleton, " not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty of that nation." Dr. LeWd remaks, that a conflux of foreigners to a retired Island, at a time when Europe was in ignorance... | |
 | John Bigland - 1812 - 738 pàgines
...the learn, ing, but also to the bounty and hospitality of that nation. And} as Leland remark's, such a conflux of foreigners, to a retired island, at a time when Europe was immersed in ignorance and involved in sanguinary confusion, gave a peculiar lustre to this ancient... | |
 | Anne Plumptre - 1817 - 452 pàgines
...supplying them also with books, and being their teachers without fee or reward. A most honourable testimony not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty of the nation." Now it is of importance to observe, that here the author asserts Patrick, to have been... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1825 - 684 pàgines
...recollection of the comment presented by Lord Lyttelton, who styles it " a most honourable testimony, not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty of the Irish nation." Amongst the ecclesiastics of Ireland distinguished for such learning as these ages... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - 1841 - 326 pàgines
...with books, without fee or reward — a most honorable testimony, says the elegant Lord Lyttleton, not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality...bounty, of that nation. "A conflux of foreigners to this retired island, at a time when Europe was in ignorance and confusion, gave peculiar lustre to... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1850 - 612 pàgines
...them also with books, and being their teachers without fee or reward. A most honourable testimony, not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty, of that nation. Great praise is likewise due to the piety of those Irish ecclesiastics, who (as we know from the clear... | |
 | Irish archaeological and Celtic society - 1850 - 610 pàgines
...them also with books, and being their teachers without fee or reward. A. most honourable testimony, not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty, of that nation. Great praise is likewise due to the piety of those Irish ecclesiastics, who (as we know from the clear... | |
 | Charles O'Kelly, John Cornelius O'Callaghan, Irish Archaeological Society - 1850 - 614 pàgines
...them also with books, and being their teachers without fee or reward. A most honourable testimony, not only to the learning, but likewise to the hospitality and bounty, of that nation. Great praise is likewise due to the piety of those Irish ecclesiastics, who (as we know from the clear... | |
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... for instruction, or for an opportunity of living in monasteries of stricter discipline: and that the Scots (as he styles the Irish) maintained them, taught them, and furnished them with books, without fee or reward: " A most honourable testimony,"... 
