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Amongst the communities and institutions that suffered were St. Mary's and the Abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr, the Carmelite, Dominican and Franciscan houses of Dublin; the Hospital of St. John and the Augustinians and Franciscans of Naas, the Priories of Conall and Clane, the Hospital of Castledermott, the Dominicans of Athy; the Franciscans of New Abbey, the Carmelites of Cloncurry, the Abbey of Baltinglass, and the College of Maynooth, the Priory of St. John in Kilkenny together with the houses of the Franciscans, and Dominicans, and the Hospital for Lepers near the same city, Jerpoint, Inistoge, Kells (Co. Kilkenny), the Carmelites of Leighlin Bridge, Knocktopher, Thurles, Clonmel, the Augustinians of Callan, Tipperary and Fethard, the Franciscans of Cashel and Clonmel, the monastery of Duisk, Hore Abbey, Kilcool and Inislonagh, Mellifont, the Abbey of the Blessed Virgin Mary near Trim, and of Kells, the Priories of St. Fechin at Fore, and of Mullingar, the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham, together with several other religious houses at Louth, Dundalk, Drogheda, Waterford, and Carlow.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey
The very dogs have a kennel, and it is not fitting that Christians be without a bed in such weather as this.”
— from Breton Legends Translated from the French by Anonymous
Then I would have actually done him a kindness, and I would have received a reward myself, which it would have been my duty to take.
— from Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities by Russell H. Conwell
But does he already know, and is he able too, and yet does he refuse to obey?
— from A New System of Horsemanship by Claude Bourgelat
I faltered a moment in my longing to address him, and then I decided that every one who forebore to speak needlessly to him, or to shake his hand, did him a kindness; and I wish I could be as sure of the wisdom of all my past behavior as I am of that piece of it.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells
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