The Irish nation: its history and its biography, by J. and F. Wills, Volume 21875 |
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... never to be thoroughly carried out in its details . The Irish undertakers were , much to their own advantage , located on the plains , and on situations of easy access ; their allotment was thus the most fertile for agriculture . The ...
... never to be thoroughly carried out in its details . The Irish undertakers were , much to their own advantage , located on the plains , and on situations of easy access ; their allotment was thus the most fertile for agriculture . The ...
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... never have been yet allowed to rest in the grave of the O'Neils and O'Mores of that dark day , and have often since called up the same sanguinary Spirits to revisit the scene of their old atrocities . But the impartial historian ...
... never have been yet allowed to rest in the grave of the O'Neils and O'Mores of that dark day , and have often since called up the same sanguinary Spirits to revisit the scene of their old atrocities . But the impartial historian ...
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... never wanting to political action , then , in that age of low political morality , turned almost exclusively on the motives of personal ambition . The perilous intrigues which were soon to harass and ob- struct the reforming and saving ...
... never wanting to political action , then , in that age of low political morality , turned almost exclusively on the motives of personal ambition . The perilous intrigues which were soon to harass and ob- struct the reforming and saving ...
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... never excelled . It was now , on the last mentioned event , felt by De Rosen , the French commander , that any further prosecution of the siege was but a hopeless waste of time . He broke up his encampment in great morti- fication ...
... never excelled . It was now , on the last mentioned event , felt by De Rosen , the French commander , that any further prosecution of the siege was but a hopeless waste of time . He broke up his encampment in great morti- fication ...
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... never deserted him , rode up to the Enniskilleners and asked them " What they would do for him ; " they came on with him , and received the enemy's fire . They were joined by a Dutch company , and both sides closed in a fierce hand to ...
... never deserted him , rode up to the Enniskilleners and asked them " What they would do for him ; " they came on with him , and received the enemy's fire . They were joined by a Dutch company , and both sides closed in a fierce hand to ...
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