A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - Ireland |
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... authority of eyewitnesses , often wrote under the influence of panic or strong party passion . It is only by collecting and comparing many letters , written by men of different opinions and scattered over wide areas , that it is ...
... authority of eyewitnesses , often wrote under the influence of panic or strong party passion . It is only by collecting and comparing many letters , written by men of different opinions and scattered over wide areas , that it is ...
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... authorities , owed her name , her language , and a large proportion of her in- habitants to the long succession of Irish immigrations and conquests between the close of the fifth and ninth centuries , 1 but at home the elements of ...
... authorities , owed her name , her language , and a large proportion of her in- habitants to the long succession of Irish immigrations and conquests between the close of the fifth and ninth centuries , 1 but at home the elements of ...
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... authority became in any degree a reality over the The murder of an English- man by an Irishman was , how- ever , felony . According to Sir John Davis : ' For the space of 200 years at least , after the ar- rival of Henry II . in Ireland ...
... authority became in any degree a reality over the The murder of an English- man by an Irishman was , how- ever , felony . According to Sir John Davis : ' For the space of 200 years at least , after the ar- rival of Henry II . in Ireland ...
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... authorities , and before they sent him to the gallows they tortured him to extort confession of treason by one of the most horrible torments human nature can endure - by roasting his feet with fire . But these isolated episodes , by ...
... authorities , and before they sent him to the gallows they tortured him to extort confession of treason by one of the most horrible torments human nature can endure - by roasting his feet with fire . But these isolated episodes , by ...
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... authorities answered that they only exercised now publicly what they had ever before been suffered to exercise privately ; and as their public prayers gave testimony to their faithful hearts to the King , so they were tied to be no less ...
... authorities answered that they only exercised now publicly what they had ever before been suffered to exercise privately ; and as their public prayers gave testimony to their faithful hearts to the King , so they were tied to be no less ...
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