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... known to us the cause of the change , and point out unmis- takably its origin and source . Why is it , for instance , that the French nation , after having lived for near a thousand years under a single dynasty , cannot now find a ...
... known to us the cause of the change , and point out unmis- takably its origin and source . Why is it , for instance , that the French nation , after having lived for near a thousand years under a single dynasty , cannot now find a ...
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... known facts of modern history , whose secret is not yet revealed , because their development is still being worked out , and no conclusion has been reached which might furnish the key to the whole . There remains , therefore , but one ...
... known facts of modern history , whose secret is not yet revealed , because their development is still being worked out , and no conclusion has been reached which might furnish the key to the whole . There remains , therefore , but one ...
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... known that St. Patrick brought to Ireland the Roman alphabet only , and that it was thenceforth used not merely for the ritual of the Church , and the dissemination of the Bible and of the works of the Holy Fathers , but likewise for ...
... known that St. Patrick brought to Ireland the Roman alphabet only , and that it was thenceforth used not merely for the ritual of the Church , and the dissemination of the Bible and of the works of the Holy Fathers , but likewise for ...
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... known the bitterness of exile . Their nobility were the first to leave in a body a land wherein they could no longer exist ; and , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , they made the Irish name illustrious on all the battle ...
... known the bitterness of exile . Their nobility were the first to leave in a body a land wherein they could no longer exist ; and , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , they made the Irish name illustrious on all the battle ...
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... known , with the purpose of arriving at a true appreciation of the character of the people . For it is the people itself we study ; the reader will meet with comparatively few individual names . We shall find , moreover , that the ...
... known , with the purpose of arriving at a true appreciation of the character of the people . For it is the people itself we study ; the reader will meet with comparatively few individual names . We shall find , moreover , that the ...
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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...