The Remains of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, the Confessio and Epistle to Coroticus: Translated Into English Blank Verse, With a Dissertation on ... And "Book of Armagh," Etc (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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To the ordinary reader without pretension to scholar ship, nor specially interested in the controversies of these early days, the chief attraction of these writings of St. Patrick will be the revelation they afford of the man himself; of his character, motives, and springs of action; of what he aimed at and what achieved. They furnish what may be fairly described as the great mission~ ary Saint's autobiography.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Remains of St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland, the Confessio and Epistle to Coroticus: Translated Into English Blank Verse, With a Dissertation on the Patrician Documents Contained in the "Trias Thaumaturga" And "Book of Armagh," Etc

I have to thank the Council of the Royal Irish Academy for the permission kindly accorded to me to re-publish my husband's last contribution to the Transactions of that learned body, of which he was President at the time of his death.

The Patrician Documents was the title that Sir Samuel Ferguson gave to these papers; they consisted of his translation into English blank verse, of the Confessio and the Coroticus Epistle, which are admitted by scholars to be authentic writings of St. Patrick himself, and to have come down to us from the fifth century of our era. The Patrician Documents included dissertations upon these, and on the lives published by Colgan in his Trias Thaumaturga, as well as an examination into the collections in the Book of Armagh and elsewhere, not accessible to Colgan, who wrote in the middle of the seventeenth century.

To the ordinary reader without pretension to scholarship, nor specially interested in the controversies of these early days, the chief attraction of these writings of St. Patrick will be the revelation they afford of the man himself; of his character, motives, and springs of action; of what he aimed at and what achieved. They furnish what may be fairly described as the great missionary Saint's autobiography.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.