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... Italy , at Allia , at Thrasymene , and at Cannæ , and bring Rome to the extremity from which she was saved by Marius ; they carried their terrible arms into Greece , sacked Delphi , and founded as conquerors their principalities in Asia ...
... Italy , at Allia , at Thrasymene , and at Cannæ , and bring Rome to the extremity from which she was saved by Marius ; they carried their terrible arms into Greece , sacked Delphi , and founded as conquerors their principalities in Asia ...
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... in Switzerland is a monument of a great missionary Church , the glory of which filled France , and which brought the tidings of salvation to the Lombards of Italy and to the heathens of the Maine and the AND IRISH CHARACTER . 27.
... in Switzerland is a monument of a great missionary Church , the glory of which filled France , and which brought the tidings of salvation to the Lombards of Italy and to the heathens of the Maine and the AND IRISH CHARACTER . 27.
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Goldwin Smith. Italy and to the heathens of the Maine and the Upper Rhine . Fridolin the Traveller , ' and the others who ' travelled ' on the same errand , were perhaps partly im- pelled by a national love of wandering ; but this love ...
Goldwin Smith. Italy and to the heathens of the Maine and the Upper Rhine . Fridolin the Traveller , ' and the others who ' travelled ' on the same errand , were perhaps partly im- pelled by a national love of wandering ; but this love ...
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... Italian art . The legendary authors of Greek civilization , Orpheus , Mercury , Amphion , all had for their talisman the harp . Giraldus shews that he is not a bigoted libeller of the Irish by the praises which he bestows upon their ...
... Italian art . The legendary authors of Greek civilization , Orpheus , Mercury , Amphion , all had for their talisman the harp . Giraldus shews that he is not a bigoted libeller of the Irish by the praises which he bestows upon their ...
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... Italy , and putting on the name and faith of Roman Chris- tianity without putting off the adventurous restlessness of the pirate , had become the most devoted and valiant soldiers of the great Roman theocracy , and the leaders of its ...
... Italy , and putting on the name and faith of Roman Chris- tianity without putting off the adventurous restlessness of the pirate , had become the most devoted and valiant soldiers of the great Roman theocracy , and the leaders of its ...
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Page 145 - IT is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Page 80 - 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 80 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast.
Page 169 - But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that are hourly committed by our people without any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand times more ferocious.
Page 170 - The principal persons of this country and the members of both houses of parliament, are in general averse to all acts of clemency...
Page 131 - Whilst this restraint of foreign and domestic education was part of an horrible and impious system of servitude, the members were well fitted to the body. To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which could give them a knowledge or feeling of those rights was rationally forbidden. To render humanity fit to be insulted, it was fit that it should be degraded.
Page 84 - Indeed they went away with sound of trumpet, for they did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise, against the Irish land and nation ; insomuch as d'Aquila said in open treaty, that when the devil upon the mount did shew Christ all the kingdoms of the earth, and the glory of them, he did not doubt but the devil left out Ireland, and kept it for himself.