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... king or dynasty anterior to Abraham is confidently given us , we may be sure we are in the region of the creative imagination . Nor is there any process known to criticism by which these vast piles of tinted cloud can be condensed into ...
... king or dynasty anterior to Abraham is confidently given us , we may be sure we are in the region of the creative imagination . Nor is there any process known to criticism by which these vast piles of tinted cloud can be condensed into ...
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... kings encountered from the Gael , the Plantagenets from the Cymry , and the Anglo - Norman colonists of Ireland from the chiefs of the native septs . The clan , however , seems to have varied considerably in the distinctness of its form ...
... kings encountered from the Gael , the Plantagenets from the Cymry , and the Anglo - Norman colonists of Ireland from the chiefs of the native septs . The clan , however , seems to have varied considerably in the distinctness of its form ...
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... the Danes , which made the natives feel the necessity of having a single commander . The greatest of the kings of all Ireland was styled Brian of the Tribute ; and tribute , rather than regular jurisdiction , seems to have 16 IRISH HISTORY.
... the Danes , which made the natives feel the necessity of having a single commander . The greatest of the kings of all Ireland was styled Brian of the Tribute ; and tribute , rather than regular jurisdiction , seems to have 16 IRISH HISTORY.
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... kings . In like manner the chiefs of the more powerful clans in the High- lands exacted tribute from the less powerful without bringing them regularly under their jurisdiction . The memory of the united monarchy and of the assemblies of ...
... kings . In like manner the chiefs of the more powerful clans in the High- lands exacted tribute from the less powerful without bringing them regularly under their jurisdiction . The memory of the united monarchy and of the assemblies of ...
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... king . Even the highly civilized Kelt of France , fa- miliar as he is with theories of political liberty , seems almost incapable of sustaining free institutions . After a moment of constitutional government he reverts , with a bias ...
... king . Even the highly civilized Kelt of France , fa- miliar as he is with theories of political liberty , seems almost incapable of sustaining free institutions . After a moment of constitutional government he reverts , with a bias ...
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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.