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Page xvi
... House , which is a melancholy emblem of departed greatness . In the House of Lords , the only relic of its former pomp is a fragment of an old chandelier , which they show mournfully to strangers , as " the last remaining branch of the ...
... House , which is a melancholy emblem of departed greatness . In the House of Lords , the only relic of its former pomp is a fragment of an old chandelier , which they show mournfully to strangers , as " the last remaining branch of the ...
Page xix
... house of an evening , and having little embrasures in his hall - door to fire through at unwelcome visitors . In the neighbourhood of my friend's house there are the ruins of a celebrated abbey , which stand , picturesquely enough , on ...
... house of an evening , and having little embrasures in his hall - door to fire through at unwelcome visitors . In the neighbourhood of my friend's house there are the ruins of a celebrated abbey , which stand , picturesquely enough , on ...
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... houses . " Even the poetry and music of the poor Irish were proscribed , and it was made penal " to entertain their bards , who perverted the imagination by romantic tales . " In the reign of Henry IV . , the Irish " Enemy " ( for so ...
... houses . " Even the poetry and music of the poor Irish were proscribed , and it was made penal " to entertain their bards , who perverted the imagination by romantic tales . " In the reign of Henry IV . , the Irish " Enemy " ( for so ...
Page 67
... House of Com- mons , that the conversion of the Papists of Ireland is only to be effected by a Bible in one hand and a * One of the two Lords Justices . + The Beef - steak club of that day , I presume . sword in the other . This , with ...
... House of Com- mons , that the conversion of the Papists of Ireland is only to be effected by a Bible in one hand and a * One of the two Lords Justices . + The Beef - steak club of that day , I presume . sword in the other . This , with ...
Page 68
... house of Sir Phelim O'Neal ; as also the secret journeys of the Lord Maguire , etc. etc. But there is no fear that the Lords Justices will attend to these forewarnings . Rebellion is a goose that layeth golden eggs , and they , at least ...
... house of Sir Phelim O'Neal ; as also the secret journeys of the Lord Maguire , etc. etc. But there is no fear that the Lords Justices will attend to these forewarnings . Rebellion is a goose that layeth golden eggs , and they , at least ...
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Page 99 - 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 83 - So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that befell them: 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Page 157 - And if any man said unto him, Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth; then he would answer him, Nay; but thou shalt give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
Page 40 - ... and after a respite of sixteen days should, if they continued obstinate, be delivered to the civil magistrate, to suffer the punishment provided by law. Fortunately for the professors of the ancient faith, Edward died before this code had obtained the sanction of the legislature. By the accession of Mary the power of the sword passed from the hands of one religious party to those of the other; and within a short time Cranmer and his associates perished in the flames which they had prepared to...
Page 46 - 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 124 - ... fact lay in themselves, and not in the wretches they doomed to the gallows. Let them change their own conduct entirely, and the poor will not long riot. Treat them like men who ought to be as free as yourselves: put an end to that system of religious persecution which for seventy years has divided the kingdom against itself; in these two circumstances lies the cure of insurrection; perform them completely, and you will have an affectionate poor, instead of oppressed and discontented vassals.
Page 92 - Revolution stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. If the wars of England carried on here from the reign of Elizabeth had been waged against a foreign enemy, the inhabitants would have retained their possessions under the established law of civilized nations, and their country have been annexed as a province to the British Empire...
Page 48 - Castle — all good securities against political heterodoxy. " in reducing this country to order and civility, it must soon acquire power, consequence, and riches. The inhabitants will be thus alienated from England ; they will cast themselves into the arms of some foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us rather connive at their disorders ; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.
Page 101 - ... to be altogether as inconsiderable, as the women and children. Their lands are almost entirely taken from them, and they are rendered incapable of purchasing any more ; and for the little that remains, provision is made by the late act against popery, that it will daily crumble away : to prevent which, some of the most considerable among them are already turned protestants, and so in all probability will many more.
Page 83 - Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.