The writer speaks of 'the prosperous succession' of prelates and abbesses who ruled in the sacred city, ritu perpetuo, a strong expression, which points to a long series of successors in Kildare.
These and other great judges of the same period appear to be undoubted historical characters, whose wisdom and learning, hallowed by the reverence of ages, appeared to their successors to be in some way divinely inspired.
St. Mochae was, like his successors down to the close of the tenth century, both bishop and abbot.
Yet the holy line of Brigid's successors was still carried on--there was a Comorbana of Brigid who died in A.
It was by accident he was not consecrated a bishop, and his successors would not pretend to be greater than their holy founder.
A Prophecy concerning his successors in the See of Tuam, written in Irish, has been attributed to St. Jarlath.
The successors of Ailbe, of Ciaran of Clonmacnoise, of Brendan, of Nessan, of Molua, were there assembled about the year A.
It appears to be quite evident, too, that he founded a school of metal work and decorative art at Kildare, which was conducted with much success under his successors in that see.
It was probably begun by St. Moling and afterwards continued by his monastic successors as an authentic record of local and national events, like the Annals of Tighernach, or the Chronicon Scotorum at Clonmacnoise.
St. Finnian was, it seems, a bishop, and his successors in Moville for some two hundred years are spoken of as bishops; but from A.
He strictly enjoined his successors to spare the sacred grove, and even directed in case any of the trees were blown down by the storm to give a part to the poor, a part to the citizens, and to reserve another part as fuel for the guest-house.
Their successors live nigh to scenes of beauty; but they have so placed themselves that they can never see them.
It was not, however, till late in the 11th century that his successors adopted the style "Hollandensis comes" as their territorial designation (it is found for the first time on a seal of Dirk V.
Though he says he levied tribute upon them, his successorsin the dynasty nearly all record fresh wars with the Kheta who appear as the northernmost of Pharaoh's enemies, and Amenophis or Amenhotep III.
In England William and Mary were looked upon as the naturalsuccessors to the throne on the death of James II.
Three of hissuccessors were minors; Antone was a leper; the fifth was repudiated by every one of his vassals.
During the reign of this prince and his successors Ethelbert and Ethelred, the people in several parts of England seem to have withdrawn from the kingdom of Wessex, and to have revived their former independency.
Whatever effort of fancy was needed to place Duke William and Harold in the old refectory of 1058, none whatever is required in order to see his successors in the halls of Roger II.
They desire us to be their successors and protectors.
It is according to Nature, that is a fixed order, for some to perish early and for others to do all their uses and leave successors to take their place.
The doctrines of Zeno and his successors were well suited to the gravity and practical good sense of the Romans; and even in the Republican period we have an example of a man, M.
Neither he nor his successors could count on the support of the Brahmans, and it is but natural that his grandson, Asoka, should have been driven to seek support from the sect founded by Buddha.
Originally it meant the interpretation of the sacred texts descended from Zarathustra and his disciples by the successors of the prophet.
Descartes's rivals and successors attempted several solutions, which it would be too long to examine here.
Concerning the successors of Robert Guiscard which were kings of Sicily and of Apulia.
Of the successors of Rotharis, king of the Lombards.
Concerning the successors of Robert Guiscard, which were kings of Sicily and of Apulia 89 Sec.
Nothing very remarkable happened at Rouen, under the successorsof Saint-Mellon, until Saint-Victrice.
The episcopate of Melance and of Hidulfe, the successors to Pretextat, offers no very particular circumstances.
We know nothing of the history of St Fillan's foundation during the first five centuries, in which the founder's staff passed through the hands of his various successors as the symbol of office of the abbot of Glendochart.
But hissuccessors refused to be overruled or set aside by the Jesuits.
Sun Yat-sen was averse to tying the hands of his followers and successors with respect to economic policy.
Although his immediate successors did much to restore the forms and appearances of the past, his work was not altogether undone.
Sun Yat-sen urged loyalty to the people, and loyalty to duty, as successors to the loyalty once owed to the sovereign.
The man who had them some years ago retired with an immense fortune; and one of his successors came from the Palais Royal when public gaming was forbidden in Paris, and was little less successful than his predecessor.
When the crisis of 1861 came, the service performed by the Walk-in-the-Water and her successors was seen in its true light.
It is only in the light of this awakening of the lands around the Great Lakes that one can see plainly the task which fell to the lot of the successors of the frail Walk-in-the-Water and sturdier Superior of the early twenties.
Along it alone could the chalk be carried, or the lime when it was baked, and it was necessary for the Britons, the Romans, and their successors to make the floor of the lime pit upon a level with this track.
His jealousy of the European character always, however, prevented him from employing any of them in his service, and he is said to have strongly recommended to his successors to follow, in this respect, his example.
I presume, this celebrated finisher of the law, who bequeathed his name to his successors in office, was a contemporary of our poet.
She had once ruled as favorite of Phradates, and it was whispered in the household that she still loved him, in spite of the fact that she had had a score of successors since her brief day of ascendency.
There Cyrus and his successors had been accustomed to seek refuge from the summer heat, and to lay aside the cares of empire for luxurious days amid the myriad blossoms of their gardens and the fairer flowers of their effeminate courts.
She too was canonised; and so also were her successors the abbesses Ermenilda and Withburga.
Footnote 87: The first prior of Ely was Vincentius; his successors were mitred priors, they held the title Dominus, and in some reigns were summoned to parliament.
To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new; and I was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast.
But the current of Rationalism was running too strongly to be so summarily stopped; and so with Kant's ablest successors faith is altogether abandoned, while the claims of reason are pushed relentlessly through.
Here we have the first germ of a disease by which the systems of Kant's successors were much more seriously infected.
Metz, whose successors ruled the town till 1444, when its inhabitants placed themselves under the protection of King Charles VII.
His immediate contemporaries and successors were not particularly great.
Thus in England the bishops, while retaining their potestas ordinis in virtue of their consecration as successors of the apostles, came to be regarded not as representing their dioceses in the state, but the state in their dioceses.
The term is also applied to the descendants of the Diadochi, the successors of Alexander the Great.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "successors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: posterity; progeny; seed
