"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"

Travelogues--James Spencer Knox--Lough Derg--Description

Knox reflects on the recent Catholic activities on the land under his feet

James Spencer Knox, 1789-1862

Pastoral Annals. By an Irish Clergyman [i.e. James S. Knox], pp. 384-85

R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, London

1840

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English

Travelogue

DD_0273

54.608913,-7.870977

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"I was left alone, to must undisturbed on the strange place in which I was. My emotions were of a deeply melancholy case. 'A few hours,' thought I 'a few brief hours only, have fled, since for now the unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude. A few brief house, and on the very space, which the soles of my feet now press, stood the minister of a rival Church, proud of his power and office - the priest of a fallen profession, daringly assuming attributes which Deity alone can claim, and in the lawless exercise of a simulated commission, dispensing pardon to sinful men, and lying wonders to diseased men, and hope to impenitent men - and knowingly, designedly, and willfully deceiving them all."

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