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Page 411 - OBSERVATIONS on the RURAL AFFAIRS of IRELAND; or a Practical Treatise on Farming, Planting, and Gardening, adapted to the Circumstances, Resources, Soil, and Climate of the Country, including some Remarks on the Reclaiming of Bogs and Wastes, and a few Hints on ornamental Gardening.
Page 64 - GALWAY. was then kept up between that country and the western coast of Ireland. When returning from his last visit he brought with him the son of a respectable merchant named Gomez, whose hospitality he had largely experienced, and who was now received by his family with all that warmth of affection which from the earliest period has characterised the natives of Ireland. Young Gomez soon became the intimate associate of Walter Lynch...
Page 71 - ... heard among the guards without. The father rose, and assisted the executioner to remove the fetters which bound his unfortunate son. Then unlocking the door, he placed him between the priest and himself, leaning upon an arm of each. In this manner they ascended a flight of steps lined with soldiers, and were passing on to gain the street, when a new trial assailed the magistrate, for which he appears not to have been unprepared. His wretched...
Page 65 - Agnes, he observed young Gomez to leave the house, as he had been invited by her father to spend that evening with him. All his suspicions now received the most dreadful confirmation, and in maddened fury he rushed on his unsuspecting friend, who, alarmed by a voice which the frantic rage of his pursuer prevented him from recognising, tied towards a solitary quarter of the town near the shore.
Page 68 - Ireland, containing at that period not more than 3000 inhabitants, a father was beheld sitting in judgment, like another Brutus, on his only son, and, like him too, condemning that son to die as a sacrifice to public justice. Yet the trial of the firmness of the upright and inflexible magistrate did not end here. His was a virtue too refined for vulgar minds: the populace loudly demanded the prisoner's release, and were only prevented by the guards from demolishing the prison, and the mayor's house,...
Page 72 - ... over parental feeling, resolved himself to perform the sacrifice which he had vowed to pay on its altar. Still retaining a hold of his unfortunate son, he mounted with him by a winding stair within the building, that led to an arched window overlooking the street, which he saw filled with the populace. Here he secured the end of the rope — which had been previously fixed round the neck of his son — to an iron staple, which projected from the wall, and after taking from him a last embrace,...
Page 149 - Hard it is," said Sir Thomas Cusack, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, under Edward VI., " that men should know their duties to God and the King, when they shall not hear teaching or preaching throughout the year.
Page 70 - I might have dropped a tear over my child's misfortunes, and solicited his life though stained with murder ; but you must die. These are the last drops which shall quench the sparks of nature ; and if you dare hope, implore that heaven may not shut the gates of mercy on the destroyer of his fellow creature.
Page 79 - I drink water out of my steel cap, when, ye drink wine out of golden cups. My courser is trained to the field, when your jennet is taught to amble. When you are be-graced and be-lorded, and crouched and kneeled unto, then...
Page 71 - ... exertions to save the life of her son, had gone in distraction to the heads of her own family, and prevailed on them, for the honour of their house, to rescue him from ignominy. They flew to arms, and a prodigious concourse soon assembled to support them, whose outcries for mercy to the culprit would have shaken any nerves less firm than those of the mayor of Galway.