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Page 32
... feels the tenseness of the unseen , the wind of an enchantment . It was in these moods of the earth , still so close to us in Ireland , that the Druid arose in the half - light of the past , feeling his way in a universe where he bowed ...
... feels the tenseness of the unseen , the wind of an enchantment . It was in these moods of the earth , still so close to us in Ireland , that the Druid arose in the half - light of the past , feeling his way in a universe where he bowed ...
Page 35
... feeling and dignity . It spreads before us a true and telling account of a great enterprise . Patrick was a Briton . He was born on one of the rivers in the north of Britain , probably at Dumbarton on the Clyde . The name he gives in ...
... feeling and dignity . It spreads before us a true and telling account of a great enterprise . Patrick was a Briton . He was born on one of the rivers in the north of Britain , probably at Dumbarton on the Clyde . The name he gives in ...
Page 82
... feeling the way , so to speak , at every step . " This was the method of bringing Ireland to Christ and " engrafting virtue . " At the same time a public edict " should , as among the Sicilians , forbid on pain of the severest penalty ...
... feeling the way , so to speak , at every step . " This was the method of bringing Ireland to Christ and " engrafting virtue . " At the same time a public edict " should , as among the Sicilians , forbid on pain of the severest penalty ...
Page 90
... feeling generated by the conquest . Prince John came over , and the Irish chiefs were asked to a fresh party in Dublin . They came , and many young Normans with Prince John . Being witty and well- bred , they pulled the chieftains ...
... feeling generated by the conquest . Prince John came over , and the Irish chiefs were asked to a fresh party in Dublin . They came , and many young Normans with Prince John . Being witty and well- bred , they pulled the chieftains ...
Page 104
... feeling . In 1537 the six Geraldines were " drawne , hanged , and quartered at Tiburne , " and their heads set on six spikes on London Bridge . Antagonists though they were , the ruin of the Ger- aldines was terrible enough to win the ...
... feeling . In 1537 the six Geraldines were " drawne , hanged , and quartered at Tiburne , " and their heads set on six spikes on London Bridge . Antagonists though they were , the ruin of the Ger- aldines was terrible enough to win the ...
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Page 170 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 171 - I think the advantages by the proposal which I have made are obvious and many, as well as of the highest importance. For, first, as I have already observed, it would greatly lessen the number of papists, with whom we are yearly overrun, being the principal breeders of the nation, as well as our most dangerous enemies...
Page 364 - Covenant throughout this our time of threatened calamity to stand by one another in defending for ourselves and our children our cherished position of equal citizenship in the United Kingdom and in using all means which may be found necessary to defeat the present conspiracy to set up a Home Rule Parliament in Ireland.
Page 170 - And as to the younger laborers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and consequently pine away for want of nourishment to a degree that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labor, they have not strength to perform it; and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.
Page 281 - For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery. But in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
Page 187 - That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman catholic fellow-subjects...
Page 178 - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE and OUGHT to be as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
Page 123 - ... after, insomuch 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 196 - ... they seem beside to labour under a greater degree of ignorance in husbandry than the others; perhaps it is that their industry had less scope, and was less exercised at home. I have heard many relate, how the land was parcelled out in that kingdom; their ancient conquest has been a great detriment to them, by over-setting their landed property.
Page 225 - The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tend to encourage this system of blood, and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &c., &c., and if a priest has been put to death the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.