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... called the history of a nation are its individual actions , the spontaneous energy of its life ; and , as a man shows what he is by his acts , so does a nation or a race by the facts of its history . When we compare the vast despotisms ...
... called the history of a nation are its individual actions , the spontaneous energy of its life ; and , as a man shows what he is by his acts , so does a nation or a race by the facts of its history . When we compare the vast despotisms ...
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... called , is the strangest phenomenon in their history , and gives them at first an outlandish look , which many have not hesitated to call bar- barism . We hope thoroughly to vindicate their character from such a foul aspersion , and to ...
... called , is the strangest phenomenon in their history , and gives them at first an outlandish look , which many have not hesitated to call bar- barism . We hope thoroughly to vindicate their character from such a foul aspersion , and to ...
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... people and their instructors the bishops and monks . Let those precious old symbols be called Ogham , or by any other name - there must have been something of the kind . If any one insists that such was not the case xiv PREFACE .
... people and their instructors the bishops and monks . Let those precious old symbols be called Ogham , or by any other name - there must have been something of the kind . If any one insists that such was not the case xiv PREFACE .
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... called opposition to progress , but the success of which to - day proves beyond question that they were right . It was , the reader may remark , a resistance to the whole of Northern Europe , wherein their island was included . For ...
... called opposition to progress , but the success of which to - day proves beyond question that they were right . It was , the reader may remark , a resistance to the whole of Northern Europe , wherein their island was included . For ...
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... called by Julius Cæsar , " Civitates . " The Greeks called them Celts , " Keltai . " They do not appear to have adopted a common name for themselves , as the idea of what we call nationality would never seem to have occurred to them ...
... called by Julius Cæsar , " Civitates . " The Greeks called them Celts , " Keltai . " They do not appear to have adopted a common name for themselves , as the idea of what we call nationality would never seem to have occurred to them ...
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Page 214 - ... 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 248 - Whoever is acquainted with the state of religion and society in England, during the latter part of the seventeenth and the whole of the eighteenth century, needs not to be told that, among the ruling classes, faith in a revealed religion had ceased to exist.
Page 346 - That the crown of Ireland is an imperial crown inseparably annexed to the crown of Great Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend: but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own— the sole legislature thereof.
Page 346 - Majesty that we humbly conceive that in this right the very essence of our liberties exists ; a right which we, on the part of all the people of Ireland, do claim as their birthright, and which we cannot yield but with our lives.
Page 299 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 336 - Majesty's happy government will work a greater miracle in this kingdom than ever St. Patrick did ; for St. Patrick did only banish the poisonous worms, but suffered the men full of poison to inhabit the land still ; but his Majesty's blessed genius will banish all those generations of vipers out of it, and make it ere it be long a right fortunate island.
Page 221 - Pope should order him to return to his diocese, he intended only to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's.
Page 384 - The Commissioners for Ireland gave them orders upon the governors of garrisons, to deliver to them prisoners of war ; upon the keepers of gaols, for offenders in custody ; upon masters of workhouses, for the destitute in their care 'who were of an age to labour, or if women were marriageable and not past breeding...
Page 236 - ... parlours were hung with altar-cloths, their tables and beds covered with copes, instead of carpets and coverlets; and many made carousing cups of the sacred chalices, as once Belshazzar celebrated his drunken feast in the sanctified vessels of the temple.
Page 214 - ... they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. 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...