Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account of His Ancestors |
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... father . Not only he , but four - fifths of his countrymen , seemed sunk into such a close resemblance of beasts of burthen , as might have gone far to satisfy that doubter mentioned by Bolingbroke , who said , " he never could believe ...
... father . Not only he , but four - fifths of his countrymen , seemed sunk into such a close resemblance of beasts of burthen , as might have gone far to satisfy that doubter mentioned by Bolingbroke , who said , " he never could believe ...
Page 124
... father and the rest of the family were reduced to beggary . * Let it always be recollected that the laws which encouraged such crimes , were not the relics of any dark superstitious age , but had been enacted in one of the golden ...
... father and the rest of the family were reduced to beggary . * Let it always be recollected that the laws which encouraged such crimes , were not the relics of any dark superstitious age , but had been enacted in one of the golden ...
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... Father Sheeby , the good parish priest of Clogheen , was hanged at Clonmell on the testimony of a perjured witness , for a crime of which he was as innocent as the babe unborn . This execution of Father Sheeby was one of those coups d ...
... Father Sheeby , the good parish priest of Clogheen , was hanged at Clonmell on the testimony of a perjured witness , for a crime of which he was as innocent as the babe unborn . This execution of Father Sheeby was one of those coups d ...
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