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... rules of life ; equally adapted for action and for the acquisition of knowledge ; loving action and knowledge each for its own sake ; loving above all war , less for the sake of conquest than for that of glory and adventure , for the ...
... rules of life ; equally adapted for action and for the acquisition of knowledge ; loving action and knowledge each for its own sake ; loving above all war , less for the sake of conquest than for that of glory and adventure , for the ...
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... rules of taste as were committed by Curran , by Grattan , and even by Burke . Those who blame Burke's party for not putting him in a high place of responsibility should consider the extravagant violence and absurdity of some of his AND ...
... rules of taste as were committed by Curran , by Grattan , and even by Burke . Those who blame Burke's party for not putting him in a high place of responsibility should consider the extravagant violence and absurdity of some of his AND ...
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... rule of persons rather than to that of institutions . So far as willingness to submit to governors is concerned , they are only too easily governed . Loyalty is the great virtue of their political character . Its great defect is want of ...
... rule of persons rather than to that of institutions . So far as willingness to submit to governors is concerned , they are only too easily governed . Loyalty is the great virtue of their political character . Its great defect is want of ...
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... rule of keeping Easter , Colman pleaded the authority of Ireland's great Saint , Columba . " Will he , " replied Wilfrid , " set the autho- rity of Columba in opposition to that of St. Peter , to whom were given the keys of heaven ...
... rule of keeping Easter , Colman pleaded the authority of Ireland's great Saint , Columba . " Will he , " replied Wilfrid , " set the autho- rity of Columba in opposition to that of St. Peter , to whom were given the keys of heaven ...
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... rule was put away ; the Roman rule was intro- duced ; the customs of the Church were everywhere received ; the contrary customs were rejected ; the ca- thedrals were rebuilt ; the clergy were ordained in them ; the sacramental rites ...
... rule was put away ; the Roman rule was intro- duced ; the customs of the Church were everywhere received ; the contrary customs were rejected ; the ca- thedrals were rebuilt ; the clergy were ordained in them ; the sacramental rites ...
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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.