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... according to Keating , utterly devoid of the qualifications required by an historian , and whether " from malice or ignorance " were unfit to essay the task . They seemed to follow the example of the beetle which selects the nastiest ...
... according to Keating , utterly devoid of the qualifications required by an historian , and whether " from malice or ignorance " were unfit to essay the task . They seemed to follow the example of the beetle which selects the nastiest ...
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... according to " some records of the kingdom , " which Keating mentions " out of respect , " the first really historic personage who visited the island was Ceasar , the daughter of Bith , a niece of Noah , but whom the patriarch refused ...
... according to " some records of the kingdom , " which Keating mentions " out of respect , " the first really historic personage who visited the island was Ceasar , the daughter of Bith , a niece of Noah , but whom the patriarch refused ...
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... according to Hanmer , “ many of the cursed seed of Cham ( Ham ) arrived on this island with their captain Oceanus , the sonne of Cham , called of some Mena , of Moses Mitzraim . " These were of great stature and strength , and after a ...
... according to Hanmer , “ many of the cursed seed of Cham ( Ham ) arrived on this island with their captain Oceanus , the sonne of Cham , called of some Mena , of Moses Mitzraim . " These were of great stature and strength , and after a ...
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... according to the " faithful Cormac MacCuillenan in his Psalter of Cashel " ( so Keating ) , about 1,300 years before the birth of Christ ; but , according to that " idle writer " and " inexhaustible fund of falsehood , " Giraldus ...
... according to the " faithful Cormac MacCuillenan in his Psalter of Cashel " ( so Keating ) , about 1,300 years before the birth of Christ ; but , according to that " idle writer " and " inexhaustible fund of falsehood , " Giraldus ...
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... According to the royal records of Tara , he was attacked and bitten , when a babe , by a serpent , but was healed by the wand of Moses , who is said to have foretold that the countries where Gadelus , or any of his race should live ...
... According to the royal records of Tara , he was attacked and bitten , when a babe , by a serpent , but was healed by the wand of Moses , who is said to have foretold that the countries where Gadelus , or any of his race should live ...
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Page 277 - 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 275 - I have heard some great warriors say, that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely horseman than the Irish man, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge...
Page 42 - tis sweeter to bleed for an age at thy shrine Than to sleep but a moment in chains. Forget not our wounded companions, who stood § In the day of distress by our side ; While the moss of the valley grew red with their blood, They stirred not, but conquered and died.
Page 265 - English had learned it, they used it with more insolence, and made it more intolerable; for this oppression was not temporary, or limited either to place or time; but because there was every where a continual war, either offensive or defensive, and every lord of a country and every marcher made war and peace at his pleasure, it became universal and perpetual; and was indeed the most heavy oppression that ever was used in any Christian or heathen kingdom.
Page 278 - ... 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; they did eat...
Page 216 - Essex, and after mentioning his " fern table, and fern forms, spread under the stately canopy of heaven," he notices what constitutes the real power of every monarch, the love, namely, and allegiance of his subjects. " His guards, for the most part, were beardless boys without shirts; who in the frost wade as familiarly through rivers as water-spaniels. With what charm such a master makes them love him, I know not ; but if he bid come, they come ; if go, they do go ; if he say do this, they do it.
Page 226 - ... into all the west parts of the world ; the long inlets of many navigable rivers and so many great lakes and fresh ponds within the land, as the like are not to be seen in any part of Europe ; the rich fishings and wild-fowl of all kinds ; and lastly, the bodies and minds of the people endued with extraordinary abilities of nature.
Page 273 - White as the snow, or as the foam of the wave, was her side ; long was it, slender, and as soft as silk. Smooth and white were her thighs ; her knees^ were round and firm and white ; her ankles were as straight as the rule of a carpenter.
Page 218 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 114 - Parliament, and such causes, considerations, and Acts affirmed by the King and his Council to be good and expedient...