 | Joseph Nightingale - Catholics - 1812 - 588 pages
...friend of the present Rev. Dr. Milner's, who remarks, " that it is the largest piece of the cross he ever met with, being about two inches and a half long,...archiepiscopal cross, made of some curious wood, and enclosed in a gilt case." — Vide Dr. Milner's Inquiry into certain vulgar opinions concerning the... | |
 | John Lunan - Botany - 1814 - 418 pages
...small, seal}', black, with many long dark brown fibres ; leaves many, of different sizes, the largest two inches and a half long, and about half an inch broad near the middle ; they end in a point which bows down to the ground, takes root, and sends out rounder... | |
 | J. Drew Gay - India - 1876 - 468 pages
...excused from all responsibility for anything he said or did. What we saw was a huge piece of ivory, about two inches and a half long, and about half an inch in diameter, rising slowly to a smoothly rounded cone, reposing on a gold lotus leaf. After this we... | |
 | J. Drew Gay - India - 1877 - 392 pages
...excused from all responsibility for anything he said or did. What we saw was a huge piece of ivory, about two inches and a half long, and about half an inch in diameter, rising slowly to a smoothly rounded cone, reposing on a gold lotus leaf. After this we... | |
 | Malachy Hartry (called Father John.) - Cistercians in Ireland - 1895 - 414 pages
...Milncr, who saw the Relic during his visit to Ireland in 1807, describes it as being 'three inches long, about half an inch broad, but very thin. It is inserted in the lower shaft of an archiepiscopal cross six and a half inches in length, being made of some curious wood and enclosed in a gilt case.'2 I brought... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 516 pages
...is in the possession of the Roman Catholic clergy of the place, and is described by Doctor Milner as being about two inches and a half long, and about...archiepiscopal cross made of some curious wood, and enclosed in a gilt case. The doctor also informs us that this relic was preserved from sacrilege in... | |
 | 536 pages
...which is here made so as to fit the tube of the magnifier, a slit to admit the arm of this magnifier, about two inches and a half long, and about half an inch farther, another short slit, at right angles to the former. By these the paper was slided and held... | |
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Petrie informs us — and there cannot be a better authority — that "the identical piece of the cross still exists; it is in the possession of the Roman Catholic clergy of the place, and is described by Doctor Milner as being about two inches and a... 