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Page iii
... writer requires some development . It is not by a succession of periods of progress and decay only that nations manifest their life and individuality . Taking any one of them at any period of its existence , and comparing it with others ...
... writer requires some development . It is not by a succession of periods of progress and decay only that nations manifest their life and individuality . Taking any one of them at any period of its existence , and comparing it with others ...
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... writers have traced the way . Thus Bossuet wrote his celebrated " Discours . " But he stopped wisely at the coming of our Lord . As to the events anterior to that great epoch , he spoke often like a prophet of ancient times ; he seemed ...
... writers have traced the way . Thus Bossuet wrote his celebrated " Discours . " But he stopped wisely at the coming of our Lord . As to the events anterior to that great epoch , he spoke often like a prophet of ancient times ; he seemed ...
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... writers , who invariably , and with a truly Irish assurance , begin with one of the sons of Ja- phet , and , following the Hebrew or Septuagint chronology , de- scribe without flinching the various colonizations of Erin , not omitting ...
... writers , who invariably , and with a truly Irish assurance , begin with one of the sons of Ja- phet , and , following the Hebrew or Septuagint chronology , de- scribe without flinching the various colonizations of Erin , not omitting ...
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... writers , chiefly English , who have treated of Irish affairs , unhesitatingly call them bar barians , precisely on account of their stubbornness in rejecting the advances of the Anglo - Norman invaders . Sir John Davies , the attorney ...
... writers , chiefly English , who have treated of Irish affairs , unhesitatingly call them bar barians , precisely on account of their stubbornness in rejecting the advances of the Anglo - Norman invaders . Sir John Davies , the attorney ...
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... writers are found who apply to their notion of race all the inflexibility of physical laws , and who represent history as a rigid system of facts chained together by a kind of fatality ; if a school has sprung up among historians to do ...
... writers are found who apply to their notion of race all the inflexibility of physical laws , and who represent history as a rigid system of facts chained together by a kind of fatality ; if a school has sprung up among historians to do ...
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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...