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... walls . You will hear and see all this , and much more too ; but if you do not , and if you can- not , why - stop at home , weighing tobacco or measuring calico in Cheapside all your life time , for you are not fit to be a tourist in ...
... walls . You will hear and see all this , and much more too ; but if you do not , and if you can- not , why - stop at home , weighing tobacco or measuring calico in Cheapside all your life time , for you are not fit to be a tourist in ...
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... walls are double , and at each floor there was a passage for men , and in the outer wall there are loop - holes at regular distances , of such a sort as to suit archers - testifying that they were made before the invention of fire ...
... walls are double , and at each floor there was a passage for men , and in the outer wall there are loop - holes at regular distances , of such a sort as to suit archers - testifying that they were made before the invention of fire ...
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... wall which enviously shuts out the view ; but from the Bay it presents , through the tall trees which screen it from the sea - breeze , a most picturesque appearance ; and when you enter it , it seems the chosen abode where health and ...
... wall which enviously shuts out the view ; but from the Bay it presents , through the tall trees which screen it from the sea - breeze , a most picturesque appearance ; and when you enter it , it seems the chosen abode where health and ...
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... wall , at whose base the ever fluctuating world of waters is continually beating . The lower range of windows is nearly on a level with the grounds , and project from the wall , surmounted by battlemented turrets . At the southern ...
... wall , at whose base the ever fluctuating world of waters is continually beating . The lower range of windows is nearly on a level with the grounds , and project from the wall , surmounted by battlemented turrets . At the southern ...
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... wall ; the area itself is almost round , and slopes gently from all sides towards the middle , where is formed a beautiful circular lake , as clear as crystal . To the west you see the rocky top of Sliev Beingan , to the east Sliev ...
... wall ; the area itself is almost round , and slopes gently from all sides towards the middle , where is formed a beautiful circular lake , as clear as crystal . To the west you see the rocky top of Sliev Beingan , to the east Sliev ...
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Page 33 - In the descent southward, near the bottom, one is forced to slide down a sort of thatch, composed of furze, long grass, and juniper. St. Donard, a disciple of St. Patrick, is said to have spent the life of a hermit on this mountain, and built a cell, or oratory, on the top of it, towards the close of the fifth century.
Page 160 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 255 - ... inviolable, and to deliver up the succession peaceably to his Tanist, and then hath a wand delivered unto him by some whose proper office that is; after which, descending from the stone, he turneth himself round, thrice forwards and thrice backwards. Eudox. But how is the Tanist chosen? Iren. They say he setteth but one foot upon the stone, and receiveth the like oath that the captaine did.
Page 14 - A day with not too bright a beam, A warm, but not a scorching sun, A southern gale to curl the stream, And, master, half our work is done.
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