A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - Ireland |
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... hands a very interesting correspondence of Lady Louisa Conolly and her friends ; and Lord Colchester , the whole correspondence of Abbot , who was Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant during the Administration of Addington . The ...
... hands a very interesting correspondence of Lady Louisa Conolly and her friends ; and Lord Colchester , the whole correspondence of Abbot , who was Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant during the Administration of Addington . The ...
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... hand , we may trace with singular clearness the perverting and de- grading influence of great legislative injustices , and the manner in which they affect in turn every element of national well - being . This portion of the history of ...
... hand , we may trace with singular clearness the perverting and de- grading influence of great legislative injustices , and the manner in which they affect in turn every element of national well - being . This portion of the history of ...
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... hands of the English authorities , and before they sent him to the gallows they tortured him to extort confession of treason by one of the most horrible torments human nature can endure - by roasting his feet with fire . But these ...
... hands of the English authorities , and before they sent him to the gallows they tortured him to extort confession of treason by one of the most horrible torments human nature can endure - by roasting his feet with fire . But these ...
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... hands , for their legs could not bear them . They looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrion , happy when they could find them ; yea , and one another soon after ...
... hands , for their legs could not bear them . They looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrion , happy when they could find them ; yea , and one another soon after ...
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... hands . One of the conditions of the grants was that none of the native Irish should be admitted among the tenantry of the new proprietors.2 It was intended to sweep those who had survived the war completely from the whole of this ...
... hands . One of the conditions of the grants was that none of the native Irish should be admitted among the tenantry of the new proprietors.2 It was intended to sweep those who had survived the war completely from the whole of this ...
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