 | John Brady - 1815 - 428 pages
...his own inferiority : so that the more deeply he was fixed on the foundation of true humility, the more firmly he might stand in the height of perfection....would become to his brethren a stone of offence, and a stumbling-block of reproach. And he had not long quitted the place, when lo! one stood before him,... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 382 pages
...relates how " the flesh-meat changed into fishes." It appears that, after Patrick had become a monk, " a desire of eating meat came on him, until, being...desire, he obtained swine's flesh, and concealed it, thinking, rightly, that he might thus satisfy his appetite privily, which, should he openly do, he... | |
 | Thomas Crofton Croker - 1839 - 370 pages
...relates how " the flesh-meat changed into fishes." It appears that, after Patrick had become a monk, " a desire of eating meat came on him, until, being...desire, he obtained swine's flesh, and concealed it, thinking, rightly, that he might thus satisfy his appetite privily, which, should he openly do, he... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1852 - 154 pages
...humility, the more firmly he might stand in the height of perfection. For a desire of eating meat came upon him, until, being ensnared and carried away by his...would become to his brethren a stone of offence and a stumbling-block of reproach. And he had not long quitted the place, when, lo ! one stood before him... | |
 | Saint Patrick, Reverend James O'Leary - 1897 - 374 pages
...the more firmly he might stand in the height of perfection. For a desire .of eating meat came upon him, until, being ensnared and carried away by his...satisfy his appetite privily, which should he openly do Le would become to his brethren a stone of offence and a stumblingblock of reproach. And he had not... | |
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Church, that he might learn to think humbly of himself, to walk with the lowly, and to bear with the 'weak, permitted him to feel his own inferiority : so that the more deeply he was fixed on the foundation of true humility, the more firmly he might stand... 