Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account of His Ancestors |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 62
Page 8
... English for liberty , the Irish are the only people in the world who fight for fun ; and , how- ever true this may be of my countrymen in ge- neral , there is no doubt of its perfect correctness as applied to the Rock Family in ...
... English for liberty , the Irish are the only people in the world who fight for fun ; and , how- ever true this may be of my countrymen in ge- neral , there is no doubt of its perfect correctness as applied to the Rock Family in ...
Page 9
... English government has at all times consulted our taste in this particular- -ministering to our love of riot through every successive reign , from the invasion of Henry II . down to the present day , so as to leave scarcely an interval ...
... English government has at all times consulted our taste in this particular- -ministering to our love of riot through every successive reign , from the invasion of Henry II . down to the present day , so as to leave scarcely an interval ...
Page 10
... English and Irish cursing each other . - Apostrophe to Tithes . In the year 1180 , and for some centuries after , if a man was caught in Ireland with his upper lip unshaven , he was held to be no true Englishman , and might be plundered ...
... English and Irish cursing each other . - Apostrophe to Tithes . In the year 1180 , and for some centuries after , if a man was caught in Ireland with his upper lip unshaven , he was held to be no true Englishman , and might be plundered ...
Page 13
... English conquerors adopted this ordinary policy , the respectable Family of the Rocks might never have been heard of ; a few dozen rebellions would have been lost to the page of history ; and Archbishop Magee would not , perhaps , at ...
... English conquerors adopted this ordinary policy , the respectable Family of the Rocks might never have been heard of ; a few dozen rebellions would have been lost to the page of history ; and Archbishop Magee would not , perhaps , at ...
Page 14
... English laws were not communicated to its people , nor the benefit or protection thereof allowed them ; for , as long as they were out of the protection of the laws , so as every Englishman might oppress , spoil , and kill them without ...
... English laws were not communicated to its people , nor the benefit or protection thereof allowed them ; for , as long as they were out of the protection of the laws , so as every Englishman might oppress , spoil , and kill them without ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acres Agistment alarm ancestors ancient appears Archbishop Ascendancy Bishop Captain Rock cause CHAPTER Church of Ireland Clergy crown Diocese discord Dublin Duke Ecclesiastical Education enemy England English Establishment estates exclusively faith father favour feeling former gentlemen Government grant Grattan hands hath Henry honour House of Commons hundred Insurrection Insurrection Act Ireland Irish King land late least Leland liberty living London Hibernian Society Lord Eldon Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Strafford Lords Justices matter measure ment millions mode Munster never oppression Orange Orangemen OVID Papists parish Parliament Penal period persecution persons poor Popery Popish possession pounds present priests Protestantism Rapparees rebellion rebels Reformation reign religion Reverend Rock Family Rockism Roger Moore Roman Catholic rulers sacred says schools spirit suffered tenth testant tion Tithes Union whole worthy wretched
Popular passages
Page 122 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 55 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that, in short space, there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...
Page 101 - So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them: 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Page 193 - And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
Page 58 - Should we exert ourselves", said they, "in reducing this country to order and civility, it must soon acquire power, consequence, and riches. The inhabitants will be thus alienated from England; they will cast themselves into the arms of some foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us rather connive at their disorders; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.
Page 99 - Among other amiable enactments against the Catholics at this period, the price of five pounds was set on the head of a Romish priest — being exactly the same sum offered by the same legislators for the head of a wolf.
Page 25 - Every inconsiderable party, who, under the pretence of loyalty, received the king's commission to repel the adversary in some particular district, became pestilent enemies to the inhabitants. Their properties, their lives, the chastity of their families, were all exposed to barbarians, who sought only to glut their brutal passions; and by their horrible excesses purchased the curse of God and man.
Page 55 - 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 54 - Ah, how I fear lest it be objected to us, as it was to Tiberius by Bato, concerning the Dalmatian commotions! You it is that are in fault, who have committed your flocks, not to shepherds, but to wolves.
Page 288 - Half a million, or more, was expended some years ago, to break an opposition, the same, or a greater sum, may be necessary now ;" so said the principal servant of the Crown.