Travels in Ireland in the Year 1822: Exhibiting Brief Sketches of the Moral, Physical, and Political State of the Country : with Reflections on the Best Means of Improving Its Condition |
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... carry , and frequently and skilfully use . When not driven by necessity to labour , they willingly consume whole days in sloth , or as willingly employ them in riot ; strange diversity of nature , to love indolence and hate quiet — to ...
... carry , and frequently and skilfully use . When not driven by necessity to labour , they willingly consume whole days in sloth , or as willingly employ them in riot ; strange diversity of nature , to love indolence and hate quiet — to ...
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... carry into effect the blessed purposes of the Christian dispensation , but to cultivate useful learning , and meliorate the condition of society , sunk and debased as it was by the errors of paganism , and the wasteful consequences of ...
... carry into effect the blessed purposes of the Christian dispensation , but to cultivate useful learning , and meliorate the condition of society , sunk and debased as it was by the errors of paganism , and the wasteful consequences of ...
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... carried pillage and desolation into the heart of the country , and made themselves , for a long time , masters of a great part of the island . In this interval , which continued nearly two centuries , the Danes fortified Dublin , and ...
... carried pillage and desolation into the heart of the country , and made themselves , for a long time , masters of a great part of the island . In this interval , which continued nearly two centuries , the Danes fortified Dublin , and ...
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... carried ; and his mode of life was a convincing proof of his disinterestedness . The mortified character of this first rate enthusiast is thus portrayed by the historian of his life . " From the day of his birth to the day of his death ...
... carried ; and his mode of life was a convincing proof of his disinterestedness . The mortified character of this first rate enthusiast is thus portrayed by the historian of his life . " From the day of his birth to the day of his death ...
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... carried to your ears , so unheard of heretofore , has never , until this day , so far as I know , been perpetrated against any Irish king , severity compels me to that just vengeance which charity would forbid . If you reflect on this ...
... carried to your ears , so unheard of heretofore , has never , until this day , so far as I know , been perpetrated against any Irish king , severity compels me to that just vengeance which charity would forbid . If you reflect on this ...
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Page 96 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression, which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people ; whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke.
Page 35 - ... after, insomuch 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...
Page 114 - That as men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the penal laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 78 - The whole of your island has been confiscated, with the exception of the estates of five or six old families of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII., but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's rebellion, and had the good fortune to escape the pillage of the English Republic inflicted by Cromwell ; and no inconsiderable portion of the island has been confiscated twice or, perhaps, thrice in the course of a century. The situation, therefore, of the Irish nation...
Page 83 - Leinster, now belonging to the regiments in the aforesaid garrisons and quarters of the Irish army, who were beyond the seas, and sent thither upon affairs of their respective regiments, or the army in general, shall have the benefit and advantage of the second article, provided they return hither within the space of eight months from the date of these presents, and submit to their majesties' government, and take the above-mentioned oath.
Page 82 - Second : provided that nothing in this article contained be construed to extend to, or restore any forfeiting person now out of the kingdom, except what are hereafter comprised ; provided also, that no person whatsoever shall have or enjoy the benefit of this article, that shall neglect or refuse to take the oath of allegiance, made by act of parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their present majesties, when thereunto required.
Page 84 - Government, shall be the oath abovesaid, and no other. X. No person ox persons who shall at any time hereafter break these articles, or any of them, shall thereby make, or cause any other person or persons to forfeit or lose the benefit of the same.
Page 84 - Lucan of his said engagement, past on their public account for payment of the said Protestants, and for preventing the ruin of the said John Brown and for satisfaction of his creditors at the instance of the Lord Lucan and the rest of the persons aforesaid, it is agreed that the said Lords Justices and...
Page 82 - ... whatsoever, in trust for, or for the use of them, or any of them : and all and every the said persons, of what profession, trade, or calling soever they be, shall and may use, exercise, and practise their several and respective professions, trades, and callings, as freely as they did use, exercise, and enjoy the same in the reign of King Charles II.
Page 81 - II. ; 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.