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... ment its sword , cast into the scale of fate , nearly out- weighed the destiny of Rome . The genius of Cæsar at last decided in favour of his countrymen a contest which they had waged at intervals during four centuries not merely for ...
... ment its sword , cast into the scale of fate , nearly out- weighed the destiny of Rome . The genius of Cæsar at last decided in favour of his countrymen a contest which they had waged at intervals during four centuries not merely for ...
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... ment of England , so are the endowments of the Kelt the supplement to those of the Saxon . What the Saxon wants in liveliness , grace , and warmth , the Kelt can supply ; what the Kelt lacks in firmness , judgment , perseverance , and ...
... ment of England , so are the endowments of the Kelt the supplement to those of the Saxon . What the Saxon wants in liveliness , grace , and warmth , the Kelt can supply ; what the Kelt lacks in firmness , judgment , perseverance , and ...
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... ment of a common chief . The passage above quoted from Davis , and his gene- ral account of the Irish , having been written in the reign of James I. , shew how completely the series of calamities and disturbances had arrested the social ...
... ment of a common chief . The passage above quoted from Davis , and his gene- ral account of the Irish , having been written in the reign of James I. , shew how completely the series of calamities and disturbances had arrested the social ...
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... ment , which the Brehon law sanctioned , is the reproach of all primitive codes and of none . It is the first step from the license of savage revenge to the ordered jus- tice of a regular law . The legendary accounts of early Irish ...
... ment , which the Brehon law sanctioned , is the reproach of all primitive codes and of none . It is the first step from the license of savage revenge to the ordered jus- tice of a regular law . The legendary accounts of early Irish ...
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... ment of the connexion between England and Ireland , the foundation was inevitably laid for the fatal system of Ascendancy ; a system under which the dominant party were paid for their services in keeping down rebels by a monopoly of ...
... ment of the connexion between England and Ireland , the foundation was inevitably laid for the fatal system of Ascendancy ; a system under which the dominant party were paid for their services in keeping down rebels by a monopoly of ...
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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.