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... amongst the cooly Shade Of the green Alders , by the Mulla's Shore : There a ftrange Shepherd chanc'd to find me out , Whether allured with my Pipe's Delight , Whofe pleafing Sound yfhrilled far about , Or thither led by Chance I know ...
... amongst the cooly Shade Of the green Alders , by the Mulla's Shore : There a ftrange Shepherd chanc'd to find me out , Whether allured with my Pipe's Delight , Whofe pleafing Sound yfhrilled far about , Or thither led by Chance I know ...
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... amongst themselves , and in their own kind of Military Discipline trained up ever from their Youths ; which they have never yet been taught to lay afide which 6 A VIEW of the Iren. Surely by them both; for even the ...
... amongst themselves , and in their own kind of Military Discipline trained up ever from their Youths ; which they have never yet been taught to lay afide which 6 A VIEW of the Iren. Surely by them both; for even the ...
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... amongst them are made up , and fmothered . And this Judge being ( as he is called ) the Lord's Brehon , adjudgeth for the most part a better share unto his Lord , that is the Lord of the Soil , or the Head of that Sept , and also unto ...
... amongst them are made up , and fmothered . And this Judge being ( as he is called ) the Lord's Brehon , adjudgeth for the most part a better share unto his Lord , that is the Lord of the Soil , or the Head of that Sept , and also unto ...
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... amongst themselves their own Crimes , of which no no- tice can be had by them , which would and might : amend the fame , by the Rule of the Laws of England . Eudox . What is this which you fay ? And is : there any part of that Realm or ...
... amongst themselves their own Crimes , of which no no- tice can be had by them , which would and might : amend the fame , by the Rule of the Laws of England . Eudox . What is this which you fay ? And is : there any part of that Realm or ...
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... . Eudox . What is this which you call Tanift and Taniftry ? They be Names and Terms ne- ver heard of nor known to us . Iren . It is a Cuftom amongst all the Irish Iren . 10 A VIEW of the Eudox. It is a great pity, that so ...
... . Eudox . What is this which you call Tanift and Taniftry ? They be Names and Terms ne- ver heard of nor known to us . Iren . It is a Cuftom amongst all the Irish Iren . 10 A VIEW of the Eudox. It is a great pity, that so ...
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Page 158 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 115 - ... to their lovers; that his music was not the harp nor lays of love, but the cries of people and clashing of armour; and finally, that he died not bewailed of many, but made many wail when he died, that dearly bought his death.
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