"Ussher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... necessary to import an English Archbishop Browne[78] and an English Bishop Bale, or there might not have been a single Protestant in Ireland. It was well to enrich the rolls of the Church of Ireland with the piety and learning of Ussher, and to give her in Bedell one name, at least, which carries the double crown of the hero and the saint. But, after the Restoration, by degrees the practice degenerated, and Englishmen were appointed in numbers to the Irish Episcopate ...
— Handbook of Home Rule (1887) • W. E. Gladstone et al.
... and at this hour it is hardly worth appealing to the authority of Lanigan and the scholars of the past. Much evidence not available in Lanigan's day is now at the service of scholars. We are to look rather at the reasoning of Colgan, Ussher, and Lanigan than to the mere weight of ...
— Lives of SS. Declan and Mochuda • Anonymous
... by the Reformation—The Ignatian Epistles as regarded by Calvin, Ussher, Vossius, Daille, Pearson, Wake, and Cureton—Dr. Lightfoot as a scholar and a commentator— The valuable information supplied in his recent work—His estimate of the parties who have pronounced judgment on the question ...
— The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious • W. D. (William Dool) Killen
... liturgies—, and no instructed theologian could now venture to treat Mr. Newman's distinction as idle. There was in fact nothing new in his distinctions on these two points. They had already been made in two of the preceding Tracts, the reprint of Archbishop Ussher on Prayers for the Dead, and the Catena on the Eucharistie Sacrifice; and in both cases the distinctions were supported by a ...
— The Oxford Movement - Twelve Years, 1833-1845 • R.W. Church |
