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Page 206 - A Practical Grammar of the Ancient Gaelic, or Language of the Isle of Man...
Page 194 - That when a Rector, Vicar, or Curate, shall have any number of persons, under twenty, of his parish, desirous and fit to be confirmed, he shall give the Lord Bishop notice thereof, and a list of their names, and shall suffer none to offer themselves to be confirmed, but such as he has before instructed to answer in the necessary parts of Christian knowledge ; and who, besides their Church Catechism, have learned such short prayers for morning and evening, as shall be immediately provided for that...
Page 151 - If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede you tent it : A chield's amang you taking notes, And, faith, he'll prent it. If in your bounds ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight, O...
Page 196 - ... receiving instruction, to some petty school, and to continue them there until the said children can read English distinctly, unless the parents give a just cause to excuse themselves, approved of by the ordinary in open court...
Page 112 - Offenders of all conditions, without distinction, are obliged to submit to the censures appointed by the church, whether for correction or example (commutation of penances being abolished by a late law), and they generally do it patiently. Such as do not submit (which...
Page 208 - Memorials of God's Acre; being Monumental Inscriptions in the Isle of Man, taken in the summer of 1797, by John Feltham and Edward Wright. Edited, with an Introductory Notice, by William Harrison, Esq., author of BMiotheca Monensis ; with plates of the old churches.
Page 99 - And the very great improvements which have since been made, shew plainly, that there wanted such a settlement to encourage industry; and the present and future ages will have reason to remember it with the greatest sense of gratitude. Language. But to return to the inhabitants ; whose language is the Erse, or a dialect of that spoken in the Highlands of Scotland, with a mixture of some words of Greek, Latin, and Welsh ; and many of English original, to express the names of...
Page 196 - ... constantly to school (unless for such causes as shall be approved of by the minister of the parish), and their parents shall be fined as if they did altogether refuse to send them to schoole. And for the further encouragement of the schoolmasters, they shall respectively receive, over and above the sallarys already allowed them, sixpence quarterly from the parents of every child that shall be taught by them to read English, and ninepence quarterly from such as shall be taught to write; which...
Page 90 - By the Right Reverend Thomas Wilson, DD, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man (Edition of 1797) [XVIII.] . Woods— An Account of the Past and Present State Of the Isle Of Man.
Page 196 - ... every third Sunday to the parish church, at least one hour before evening service, there to be taught by the schoolmaster, to prevent losing their learning : And if any schoolmaster shall neglect his duty, and complaint be made and proved, he shall be discharged, and another placed in his stead, at the discretion of the ordinary : And every rector, vicar...