Ireland's Story: A Short History of Ireland for Schools, Reading Circles, and General Readers |
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... passed him over in favor of a more worthy head . If we imagine the same family holding together for several generations , and at each generation choosing its most worthy member as head , we have ex- actly the ancient Irish tribe . The ...
... passed him over in favor of a more worthy head . If we imagine the same family holding together for several generations , and at each generation choosing its most worthy member as head , we have ex- actly the ancient Irish tribe . The ...
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... passing quickly through the lands of Concobar came to the seashore , and took boat across the narrow sea that divides Ulster from the long head- lands of Scotland . Once when they were playing chess within their shelter of branches ...
... passing quickly through the lands of Concobar came to the seashore , and took boat across the narrow sea that divides Ulster from the long head- lands of Scotland . Once when they were playing chess within their shelter of branches ...
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... passed it under his arms , and thus met death , standing firm upon his feet . It is said that a gray crow alighted on the top of the pillar , above the helmet of the hero , and that an otter lapped his blood , as it trickled from his ...
... passed it under his arms , and thus met death , standing firm upon his feet . It is said that a gray crow alighted on the top of the pillar , above the helmet of the hero , and that an otter lapped his blood , as it trickled from his ...
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... passed from Ireland to the Western Isles and coasts of Alba . There was also considerable commerce between Ireland and Gaul , whose inhabitants had , even two thousand years ago , ocean - going ships which filled Cæsar and the Romans ...
... passed from Ireland to the Western Isles and coasts of Alba . There was also considerable commerce between Ireland and Gaul , whose inhabitants had , even two thousand years ago , ocean - going ships which filled Cæsar and the Romans ...
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... passed through , I would never again leave my home . " While I was at home , in a vision of the night I saw one who seemed to come from Ireland , bringing innu- merable letters . He gave me one of the let- The vision . ters , in which I ...
... passed through , I would never again leave my home . " While I was at home , in a vision of the night I saw one who seemed to come from Ireland , bringing innu- merable letters . He gave me one of the let- The vision . ters , in which I ...
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IRELANDS STORY A SHORT HIST OF Charles 1867-1931 Johnston,Carita B. 1882 Joint Author Spencer No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 372 - No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.' Sunk are thy bowers in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land.
Page 373 - But if you stopped your grants, what would be the consequence ? The people would occupy without grants. They have already so occupied in many places. You cannot station garrisons in every part of these deserts. If you drive the people from one place, they will carry on their annual tillage and remove with their flocks and herds to another.
Page 371 - And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But, choked with sedges, works its weedy way; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Page 373 - Mountains. From thence they behold before them an immense plain, one vast, rich, level meadow, a square of five hundred miles. Over this they would wander without a possibility of restraint; they would change their manners with the habits of their life...
Page 235 - Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 374 - Moyle ! be the roar of thy water, Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, While murmuring mournfully, Lir's lonely daughter Tells to the night-star her tale of woes.
Page 372 - Those blazing suns that dart a downward ray, And fiercely shed intolerable day ; Those matted woods where birds forget to sing, But silent bats in drowsy clusters cling ; Those poisonous fields with rank luxuriance crown'd, Where the dark scorpion gathers death around ; Where at each step the stranger fears to wake The rattling terrors of the vengeful snake...
Page 49 - Tarah to-day, in this fateful hour, I place all heaven with its power. And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And fire with all the strength it hath, And lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness, — All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace, Between myself and...
Page 339 - In his palace at Madrid he had the pleasure of being assiduously courted by the ambassador of George the Second, and of bidding defiance in high terms to the ambassador of George the Third.* Scattered over all Europe were to be found brave Irish generals, dexterous Irish diplomatists...
Page 235 - THE Roman Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second...