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And the very fact that you and I are alive to-day, the shelter of our homes, the fact that we can enjoy the wind on the heath in camp, our books and sport and school, all these things come to us through men like Wilfrid and St. Patrick, St. Columba and St. Ninian, St.
Columba, who seems to have held with him such intercourse as a missionary to the Chocktaws might have with a great medicine-man, desired that the Magus should manumit the woman, for what reason we are not distinctly told; but it is easy to suppose strong grounds for intervention when a Christian missionary finds a woman, of his own country and creed, the slave of a heathen priest.
I suppose they continued their journey, as I did not see any when there in June; I have not seen any in Sark or either of the other small Islands. Professor Ansted includes the Sand Martin in his list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. WOOD PIGEON. Columba palumbus, Linnaeus. French, "Colombe ramier."
"Oh! there is no suggestion implied that Saint Columba was feeble of brain; and as to why the mission was trusted to him rather than another of protecting the greater part of the human race, I do not know." "Perhaps he may have cured lunatics and healed those possessed?" the Abbé Gévresin suggested.
"Hoc addam: Hie illa est senio argentata Columba Davidis, coelos hinc petit ille suos." This monument was erected by the bishop's eldest son, Sir William Dove, Kt., of Upton. He only remained here as bishop two years, when he was translated to Bath and Wells.
"I shall have a laugh at old Meinhard," said Verronax. "Little he knows of discipline." "No doubt they have had a great lyke wake, as they barbarously call their obsequies," said the Senator, "and are sleeping off their liquor." "We will rouse them," said the Arvernian; "it will be better than startling poor Columba."
It would be amusing to catechise the guessers as to their exact reasons for thinking their guess "likely:" why Hoopoe of John's has fixed on Toucan of Magdalen; why Shrike attributes its peculiar style to Buzzard, who has not hitherto been known as a writer; why the fair Columba thinks it must belong to the reverend Merula; and why they are all alike disturbed in their previous judgment of its value by finding that it really came from Skunk, whom they had either not thought of at all, or thought of as belonging to a species excluded by the nature of the case.
And Saint Columba being after many years born, when he became a man builded there a stately monastery, and by his dwelling and by his works approved the prophecy of Patrick. The Prophecy that Patrick made unto Connedus.
Both English "dove" and Latin "columba" mean the diver; and the dove uses the air much as the fish uses the sea, it glides, it dives, it shoots through its airy ocean; it hovers against the breeze, or presses its breast against the sirocco storm, as you may see fish poised in their course against the stream; then with a sudden turn it relaxes the strain and sweeps away down the wind.
The river and lake steamboats of the United States are on the average distinctly better than any I am acquainted with elsewhere. The much-vaunted splendours of such Scottish boats as the "Iona" and "Columba" sink into insignificance when compared with the wonderful vessels of the line plying from New York to Fall River.
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