The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent Welshmen, from the Earliest Times to the Present, Including the Substance of All Previous Researches Into the Literary and Personal History of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, Asser Menevensis, Giraldus Cambrensis, David Ab Gwilym, Humphrey Llwyd, Dr. John David Rys, Bishop Morgan, and Other Early Welsh Poets and HistoriansW. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1834 - 385 strani |
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Stran 84 - a mirror and pattern to all, instructing both by word and example, excellent in his preaching, but still more so in his works. He was a doctrine to all, a guide to the religious, a life to the poor, a support to orphans, a protection to widows, a father to the fatherless, a rule to monks, and a model to teachers ; becoming all to all, that so he might gain all to God.
Stran 64 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Stran 281 - ... faithfully to observe the same by a necessary relation my obedience hath to your Majesty's commands, to which I deem it not unseasonable to annex this voluntary protestation : that, whoever, ill-affected to the state, shall dare to land in those parts of Wales, where I have any employments under your Majesty, must resolve with himself to make his entrance and irruption over my belly.
Stran 39 - And whom he once had known he never would slight. Yet was his spear keen.pointed, and well knew To pierce, with truest aim, th' embattled line. Swift flew his steed to meet the hostile storm, And death sat on his lance, as, with the dawn, He rushed to war in glory's brilliant day.
Stran 58 - The horn, given to thee by Urien, With the wreath of gold around its rim, Blow in it, if t hon art in danger. The " Elegy on Urien" contains, likewise, many testimonies to this fact even stronger than the preceding.
Stran 352 - The first contains the ancient British and Gaulish names of men, places, actions, &c., in an alphabetical order, wherein not only the true and real Celtic names are discussed, in the ancient and modern orthography, proved from British authors, and the present names of places, &c., but also the mistakes and errors, whether wilful or accidental, of the several writers, who have treated of the ancient affairs of Britain in any language, are explained and rectified.
Stran 236 - During a part of his former life, it is prohable, as well as at present, his time was chiefly spent in these social enjoyments, surrounded and beloved by his family, his friends, and dependents. He had early been married to a daughter of Sir David Hanmer, of Hanmer, in Flintshire, one of the Judges of the King's Bench, and a gentleman of distinguished birth and connexions. With this lady he appears to have lived in great felicity ; and a numerous progeny was the fruit of the propitious union f. A...
Stran 313 - ... still more important and fundamental views of it as a system of idolatry and heresy, that is, as corrupting the true worship of God, and perverting the right way of salvation. Of course, we cheerfully admit, as all Protestants have done, that man may be, and that some men are, saved, who live and die in the communion of the Church of Rome. But it is not the less true that Popery exposes to fearful danger the spiritual welfare of those who embrace it. It would be unnecessary and out of place to...
Stran 191 - Hibernian, vol. iv. cap. vp 548, where are the " constitutions and canons ecclesiastical treated upon by the archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the rest of the bishops and clergy, in their several synods.