An Introduction to and an History of Ireland, 1. kötet

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H. Fitzpatrick, 1803
 

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73. oldal - Her fruitful soil forever teems with wealth, With gems her waters and her air with health. Her verdant fields with milk and honey flow, Her woolly fleeces vie with virgin snow ; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, And arms and arts her envied sons adorn.
2. oldal - By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
210. oldal - I have been informed by many of them that have had judicial places there, and partly of mine own knowledge, that there is no nation of the Christian world that are greater lovers "of justice than they are, which virtue must of necessity be accompanied with many others.
74. oldal - ... fleeces vie with virgin snow ; Her waving furrows float with bearded corn, And arms and arts her envied sons adorn. No...
vii. oldal - Irish nation as the most brutal and savage of mankind, destitute of arts, letters, and legislation; and on the other, the extreme passiveness and insensibility of the present race of...
155. oldal - Great, who died in the year 5»o, complained " that from the Humber to the Thames there was not a prieft that underftood the Liturgy in his mothertongue ; and that from the Thames to the fea there was not one that could tranflate the eafieft piece of Latin. This...
112. oldal - So truly expensive was the Irish fashion of making up shirts, on account of the number of plaits and folds, that in the reign of Henry VIII. a statute passed...
210. oldal - There is no nation under the fun that loves equal and indifferent juftice better than the Irifh, or will reft better fatisfied with the execution of it, though it be againft themfelves.
74. oldal - We must here remark that we never had frogs in Ireland till the reign of King William. It is true some mighty sensible members of the Royal Society in the time of Charles II. attempted to add these to the many other valuable presents sent us from England, but ineffectually ; as they were of Belgic origin, it would seem they could only thrive under a Dutch Prince, and these with many other exotics were introduced at the Happy Revolution.
261. oldal - ... even invaded by the Romans, from " whom all the weftern world derived its civility, they " continued ftill in the moft rude ftate of fociety, and

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