Essays on the Irish ChurchJames Parker and Company, 1866 - 330 pages |
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Page 261 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls, for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 312 - Estate real and personal to the incorporated Society in Dublin for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland...
Page 170 - Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science ; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 61 - From these ancient documents we learn that he was the son of a deacon and the grandson of a priest...
Page 236 - ... to time of regulations defining the duties of clerks of petty sessions, and the mode of performing the same ; and the Lord Lieutenant may, if he shall think fit, provide for the making of allowances and granting remuneration to petty sessions clerks for any duties imposed on them by any such rules, to be paid out of the funds at the disposal of the Lord Lieutenant for the purposes of the principal Act ; and the Lord Lieutenant may, if he shall think fit, by general rules, or by order in each...
Page 254 - ... disturbed without danger to the general securities we possess for liberty, property, and order — without danger to all the blessings we derive from being under a lawful government and a free constitution. Feeling thus, the very conscience which dictates to me a determined adherence to the Roman Catholic religion would dictate to me a determined resistance to any attempt to subvert the Protestant Establishment, or wresting from the Church the possessions which the law has given it.
Page 238 - The Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of religious and other instruction in Ireland "compiled a census by classifying, according to their different religious persuasions, the persons returned in the books of the last general census taken in the year 1831, and computing from thence the corresponding numbers for the year 1834, in those parishes in which no satisfactory original census was tendered and received f.
Page 218 - The law therefore has wisely ordained, that the parson, quatenus parson, shall never die, any more than the king : by making him. and his successors a corporation. By which means all the original rights of the parsonage are preserved entire to the successor : for the present incumbent, and his predecessor who lived seven centuries ago, are in law one and the same person ; and what was given to the one was given to the other also.
Page 182 - But he added, concerning those four which he had named, ' that he thought they, being ordinarily called, for conscience sake would not refuse to bestow the talent committed unto them, wheresoever it should please the king's majesty to bestow them.
Page 254 - ... it is established by the fundamental laws of the realm ; it is rendered, as far as the most solemn acts of the legislature can render any institution, fundamental and perpetual ; it is so declared by the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland. I think it could not now be disturbed without danger to the general securities we possess for liberty, property, and order — without danger to all the blessings we derive from being under a lawful government and a free constitution. Feeling thus,...