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... superficial antipathy . Between the Kelt and the Anglo - Norman or Anglo - Saxon , the diversity of character was great . The antipathy therefore was strong , and long and cruel has been the process by which it has been in 14 IRISH HISTORY.
... superficial antipathy . Between the Kelt and the Anglo - Norman or Anglo - Saxon , the diversity of character was great . The antipathy therefore was strong , and long and cruel has been the process by which it has been in 14 IRISH HISTORY.
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... Norman laws and institutions . The population of ancient Gaul and Britain was , in like manner , divided into a number of clans or septs , vary- ing in numbers and power , with which the Romans con- tended , and from which , acting ...
... Norman laws and institutions . The population of ancient Gaul and Britain was , in like manner , divided into a number of clans or septs , vary- ing in numbers and power , with which the Romans con- tended , and from which , acting ...
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... Normans . The possession of horses , and the consequent rise of a sort of military aristocracy of horsemen or charioteers , must also have tended to break up in Gaul , Britain , and Ireland the equality of the clansmen and the ...
... Normans . The possession of horses , and the consequent rise of a sort of military aristocracy of horsemen or charioteers , must also have tended to break up in Gaul , Britain , and Ireland the equality of the clansmen and the ...
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... Norman lawyers the custom of Tanistry , as it was called , could only appear mere barbarism . " In England , " says Sir John Davis , " and all well - ordered common- wealths , men have certain estates in their lands and possessions ...
... Norman lawyers the custom of Tanistry , as it was called , could only appear mere barbarism . " In England , " says Sir John Davis , " and all well - ordered common- wealths , men have certain estates in their lands and possessions ...
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... Norman lawyers looking for an explana- tion of everything in their own system of tenures , and seeing that in Ireland there was no primogeniture , naturally identified the Irish practice with the peculiar Kentish custom of gavelkind ...
... Norman lawyers looking for an explana- tion of everything in their own system of tenures , and seeing that in Ireland there was no primogeniture , naturally identified the Irish practice with the peculiar Kentish custom of gavelkind ...
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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.