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Page iv
... cause of their general happiness in their constant want of ambition . And if , in the course of centuries , the character of a nation has changed an event which seldom takes place , and when it does is due always to radical causes - its ...
... cause of their general happiness in their constant want of ambition . And if , in the course of centuries , the character of a nation has changed an event which seldom takes place , and when it does is due always to radical causes - its ...
Page vii
... cause , the Irish were at once , and have ever since continued , thoroughly impregnated with supernatural ideas . For several centuries after St. Patrick the island was " the Isle of Saints , " a place midway between heaven and earth ...
... cause , the Irish were at once , and have ever since continued , thoroughly impregnated with supernatural ideas . For several centuries after St. Patrick the island was " the Isle of Saints , " a place midway between heaven and earth ...
Page viii
... cause of their final success , which is now all but secured ; and this feature alone of their national life adds to their character an interest which we find in no other Christian nation . We select it , thirdly , because there is no ...
... cause of their final success , which is now all but secured ; and this feature alone of their national life adds to their character an interest which we find in no other Christian nation . We select it , thirdly , because there is no ...
Page xvi
... cause of so many social and political convulsions . By adhering strictly - a little too strictly , perhaps to their tra- ditional method of developing thought , they kept error far from their universities , and presented , in the sixth ...
... cause of so many social and political convulsions . By adhering strictly - a little too strictly , perhaps to their tra- ditional method of developing thought , they kept error far from their universities , and presented , in the sixth ...
Page xvii
... all European intercourse . It would be a great crror to imagine such to have been the cause . Indeed , at that very time , Ireland was more in daily contact with Italy , France , and Spain , than had been the case PREFACE . xvii.
... all European intercourse . It would be a great crror to imagine such to have been the cause . Indeed , at that very time , Ireland was more in daily contact with Italy , France , and Spain , than had been the case PREFACE . xvii.
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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...