Scotland in Early Christian Times \D. Douglas, 1881 - 262 páginas |
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... stand to us in precisely the same relation as the original records of her historic time . We know that the history of Scotland is not the history of any other nation on earth , and that if her records were destroyed , it would matter ...
... stand to us in precisely the same relation as the original records of her historic time . We know that the history of Scotland is not the history of any other nation on earth , and that if her records were destroyed , it would matter ...
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... stands side by side with the cathedral at St. Andrews , just as that of St. Cormac does with the cathedral at Cashel . St. Regulus consists either of a nave ( with chancel arch ) and a western tower , or of a chancel with apse arch and ...
... stands side by side with the cathedral at St. Andrews , just as that of St. Cormac does with the cathedral at Cashel . St. Regulus consists either of a nave ( with chancel arch ) and a western tower , or of a chancel with apse arch and ...
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... stands in the churchyard adjoin- ing the south - west angle of the cathedral . It is built of large irregular blocks of a hard reddish - gray sandstone . The masonry is excellent , the stones are cut to the circle of the tower , but not ...
... stands in the churchyard adjoin- ing the south - west angle of the cathedral . It is built of large irregular blocks of a hard reddish - gray sandstone . The masonry is excellent , the stones are cut to the circle of the tower , but not ...
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... stands partly within and partly Fig . 8. - Round Tower of Abernethy . ( From a Photograph . ) beyond the enclosure of the churchyard . It is 72 feet in height from the roadway . It is built of stones dressed to the curve , and laid in ...
... stands partly within and partly Fig . 8. - Round Tower of Abernethy . ( From a Photograph . ) beyond the enclosure of the churchyard . It is 72 feet in height from the roadway . It is built of stones dressed to the curve , and laid in ...
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... stands in the road . Like that at Brechin this doorway has inclined in- stead of perpendicular jambs , and a semicircular head cut out of one stone externally , the remainder of the thickness of the door- n 0 6 12 15 Fig . 9. - Section ...
... stands in the road . Like that at Brechin this doorway has inclined in- stead of perpendicular jambs , and a semicircular head cut out of one stone externally , the remainder of the thickness of the door- n 0 6 12 15 Fig . 9. - Section ...
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18 feet 9 inches abbot Abernethy Adamnan ancient Annals antiquity archæology Architecture Armagh associated bell of St Birsay Bishop Book of Armagh Book of Kells Brecbennoch Brechin bronze building built cashel Celtic Church chancel chancel arch chancelled church character Christian circular Columba Columcille conclusion construction crosier crosier of St culture cumdach doorway Drostan dry-built earliest early Celtic Church east end east window ecclesiastical Egilsay enclosed evidence existing externally feet 6 inches feet wide Fillan Gospels ground-plan Inchcolm inches high inches wide inclined internally Iona Ireland Irish island King Lybster manuscripts ment Miss Stokes monastery monastic Muir's Characteristics North Rona Orkney ornament Pagan peculiar Petrie placed preserved rath record relics remains Ronan roof Round Tower rude saint says Scotland Scottish shrine side single-chambered south wall specimens splayed stone structure style Teampull tion twelfth century uncemented west end width
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Página 135 - Garnait. They made the prayer, and health came to him. After that Columcille gave to Drostan that town, and blessed it, and left as (his) word, 'Whosoever should come against it, let him not be many-yeared [or] victorious.' Drostan's tears came on parting with Columcille. Said Columcill, 'Let DEAR [deara= tears] be its name henceforward.
Página 150 - Western world, on account of its singular cover ; and it was found after twenty nights and two months, its gold having been stolen off it, and a sod over it.
Página 136 - ... eleventh and twelfth centuries, we have it refounded and reinstated in its lands. The remembrance of its period of distress comes out clearly in these entries : " Whosoever shall go against it, let him not be many-yeared or victorious," says Columba, according to the legend ; and in another one, " His blessing on every one who shall fulfil this after him, and his curse on every one who shall go against it.
Página 152 - Book of Kells, for hours together, without ever detecting a false line or an irregular interlacement; and, when it is considered that many of these details consist of spiral lines, and are so minute as to be impossible to have been executed with a pair of compasses, it really seems a problem not only with what eyes, but also with what instruments, they could have been executed.
Página 131 - Be it on the conscience of every one in whom shall be for grace the booklet with splendour ; that he give a blessing on the soul of the wretchock who wrote it.
Página 86 - The doorways in these cells are two feet four inches in width, and but three feet six inches in height. On the other side of the chapel are a number of smaller cells, which were only large enough to contain each a single person. They are but six feet long, three feet wide, and four feet high, and most of them are now covered with rubbish. These formed a Laura, like the habitations of the Egyptian ascetics.
Página 216 - Edinburgh, there to remain in all time to come, for the use, benefit, and enjoyment, of the Scottish nation.
Página 152 - Westwood, who first drew attention to the peculiar excellences of the volume, will justify the terms made use of above : — ' This copy of the Gospels, traditionally asserted to have belonged to Columba, is unquestionably the most elaborately executed MS. of early art now in existence, far excelling, in the gigantic size of the letters in the frontispieces of the Gospel, the excessive minuteness of the ornamental details, the number of its decorations, the fineness of the writing, and the endless...
Página 134 - God's grace, and he asked of the mormaer, to wit Bede, that he should give it to him ; and he did not give it, and a son of his took an illness after (or in consequence of) refusing the clerics, and he was nearly dead (lit.
Página 182 - ... class until a person fit to be an abbot of the tribe of the patron saint, or of the tribe to whom the land belongs, should be qualified ; and when there is such a person, the abbacy is to be given to him in...