The Irish Nation: Its History and Its Biography, Volume 2A. Fullarton, 1876 - Ireland |
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... fact then required by an unperceived change in the times . The people of Ireland had for a generation been prepared by many lessons , and by several acts of a wise policy , to receive and rightly appreciate the benefits of a just ...
... fact then required by an unperceived change in the times . The people of Ireland had for a generation been prepared by many lessons , and by several acts of a wise policy , to receive and rightly appreciate the benefits of a just ...
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... fact , that great numbers of every age and sex were butchered by the native Irish at the command of their leaders . And it remains on credible record , that they acted on the avowed design to massacre all the English without any ...
... fact , that great numbers of every age and sex were butchered by the native Irish at the command of their leaders . And it remains on credible record , that they acted on the avowed design to massacre all the English without any ...
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... fact we doubt , as his name does not occur among the lists of captains , which Moryson gives ; yet it seems to derive some confirmation from the fact of his having been appointed provost marshal of Connaught , by king James , in con ...
... fact we doubt , as his name does not occur among the lists of captains , which Moryson gives ; yet it seems to derive some confirmation from the fact of his having been appointed provost marshal of Connaught , by king James , in con ...
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... facts because the summary statement that Sir C. Coote expelled them from Clontarf , by burning both Mr King's house and ... fact , that in this , as upon many other occasions , he did no more than the emergency of the occasion called for ...
... facts because the summary statement that Sir C. Coote expelled them from Clontarf , by burning both Mr King's house and ... fact , that in this , as upon many other occasions , he did no more than the emergency of the occasion called for ...
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... facts as they have occurred , with an entire disregard to all uses which have been made of them . If we admit that ... facts of this memoir , there is a disregard to the order of events , such as to give a strange confusion to a ...
... facts as they have occurred , with an entire disregard to all uses which have been made of them . If we admit that ... facts of this memoir , there is a disregard to the order of events , such as to give a strange confusion to a ...
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