The History of Ireland from the Invasion of Henry II.: With a Preliminary Discourse on the Ancient State of that Kingdom, Volume 1B. Smith, 1814 - Ireland |
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... ment , may have sheathed the acrimony of contending parties ; and those at a distance may look on their contentions with indiffer- ence : yet , even at this day , the historian of Irish affairs must be armed against censure only by an ...
... ment , may have sheathed the acrimony of contending parties ; and those at a distance may look on their contentions with indiffer- ence : yet , even at this day , the historian of Irish affairs must be armed against censure only by an ...
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... ment of laws and regulation of government . Keating , the Irish historian , who transcribed his accounts from poetical records , mentions little more of this boasted assembly , than that its great object was to introduce civility , and ...
... ment of laws and regulation of government . Keating , the Irish historian , who transcribed his accounts from poetical records , mentions little more of this boasted assembly , than that its great object was to introduce civility , and ...
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... ment is dated about a century before the Christian æra , and is said to have been succeed- ed by a political revolution of some importance . Among the other powers and privileges of the Irish fileas or bards , they had been for ages ...
... ment is dated about a century before the Christian æra , and is said to have been succeed- ed by a political revolution of some importance . Among the other powers and privileges of the Irish fileas or bards , they had been for ages ...
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... ment , devising means to give stability to their acquisitions . From one family more distinguished and reverenced than the rest , they choose a monarch , not with that regard to primogeniture suited to times more com- posed , but the ...
... ment , devising means to give stability to their acquisitions . From one family more distinguished and reverenced than the rest , they choose a monarch , not with that regard to primogeniture suited to times more com- posed , but the ...
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... ment , " there is foisted a very wonderous History " tale of the skill and enchantments of the p . 244 “ Druids in each army ; in order , no doubt , " to possess their countrymen with an high opinion and esteem of the power and im ...
... ment , " there is foisted a very wonderous History " tale of the skill and enchantments of the p . 244 “ Druids in each army ; in order , no doubt , " to possess their countrymen with an high opinion and esteem of the power and im ...
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Page 8 - Christian faith to the ignorant and rude, exterminating the roots of vice from the field of the Lord, and for the more convenient execution of this purpose requiring the counsel and favour of the apostolic see. In which, the maturer your deliberation and the greater the discretion of your procedure, by so much the happier, we trust, will be your progress, with the assistance of the Lord ; as all things are...
Page 357 - Nullus liber homo capiatur, vel imprisonetur, aut dissaisiatur, aut utlagetur, aut exuletur, aut aliquo modo destruatur, nee super eum ibimus, nee super eum mittemus, nisi per legale judicium parium suorum vel per legem terrae.
Page 358 - Omnes autem istas consuetudines predictas et libertates quas nos concessimus in regno nostro tenendas quantum ad nos pertinet erga nostros omnes de regno nostro tam clerici quam laici observent quantum ad se pertinet erga suos...
Page 278 - Every inconsiderable party, who, under the pretence of loyalty, received the king's commission to repel the adversary in some particular district, became pestilent enemies to the inhabitants. Their properties, their lives, the chastity of their families, were all exposed to barbarians, who sought only to glut their brutal passions; and by their horrible excesses purchased the curse of God and man.
Page xxi - ... for instruction, or for an opportunity of living in monasteries of stricter discipline: and that the Scots (as he styles the Irish) maintained them, taught them, and furnished them with books, without fee or reward: " A most honourable testimony," saith the elegant lord LVTTELTON, " not only to the " learning, but likewise to the hospitality '
Page xxi - ... to this seat of learning ; nor is it improbable or surprising, that seven thousand students studied at Armagh, agreeably to the accounts of Irish writers, though the seminary of Armagh was but one of those numerous colleges erected in Ireland. But the labours of the Irish clergy were not confined to their own country. Their missionaries were sent to the continent. They converted heathens, they confirmed believers, they erected convents, they established schools of learning ; they taught the use...
Page 313 - ... laws passed during this glorious, but arbitrary reign, abundantly prove that the spirit of the Penal Code did not wait to be evoked by religious rancour, * but was as active and virulent when both parties were Papists, as it has been since Henry VIII. made it a war of creeds as well as nations. — " It was enjoined by Royal mandate that no mere Irishman should be admitted into any office or trust in any city, borough, or castle in the King's land.
Page 283 - ... were a kind of independent potentates, who, if they submitted to any regulations at all, were less governed by the municipal law, than by a rude species of the law of nations.
Page 355 - Nulla vidua distringatur ad se maritandum dum voluerit vivere sine marito, ita tamen quod securitatem faciat quod se non maritabit sine assensu nostro, si de nobis tenuerit, vel sine assensu domini sui de quo tenuerit, si de alio tenuerit.
Page 356 - Nullus constabularius vel ejus ballivus capiat blada vel alia catalla alicujus qui non sit de villa ubi castrum situm est, nisi statim inde reddat denarios aut respectum inde habere possit de voluntate venditoris; si autem de villa ipsa fuerit, infra quadraginta dies precium reddat.7 [1215, c.