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... efforts , however gallant , and however successful , must always fail to achieve great national re- sults ; and so , despite many defeats and disasters , the power of the Norsemen remained unbroken , until a chief appeared who infused ...
... efforts , however gallant , and however successful , must always fail to achieve great national re- sults ; and so , despite many defeats and disasters , the power of the Norsemen remained unbroken , until a chief appeared who infused ...
Page 14
... effort to rid the land of a foreign oppressor . But Mahon said the Norse- men were invincible , and that it was idle to talk of destroying them . Where , Brian , ' he asked , ' are your followers ? ' ' Dead on the battlefield ...
... effort to rid the land of a foreign oppressor . But Mahon said the Norse- men were invincible , and that it was idle to talk of destroying them . Where , Brian , ' he asked , ' are your followers ? ' ' Dead on the battlefield ...
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... effort to drive out the invader . Dermot's sub- jects abandoned Strongbow and united with their fellow - countrymen in a combined attack on Waterford , Wexford and Dublin , where the Normans were now shut up . At the same time Strongbow ...
... effort to drive out the invader . Dermot's sub- jects abandoned Strongbow and united with their fellow - countrymen in a combined attack on Waterford , Wexford and Dublin , where the Normans were now shut up . At the same time Strongbow ...
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... effort , and the English settlement would have disappeared altogether . That effort was never made . Irish and Nor- mans possessed all the lands outside the narrow limits of the Pale . But within these limits the English settlers held ...
... effort , and the English settlement would have disappeared altogether . That effort was never made . Irish and Nor- mans possessed all the lands outside the narrow limits of the Pale . But within these limits the English settlers held ...
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... effort to drive the English out of Ireland ; but the cautious Butler refused . Leaving a force to be- siege Dublin Castle , Offaly marched into the territory of the Butlers , and laid waste the county of Kilkenny . Then returning to ...
... effort to drive the English out of Ireland ; but the cautious Butler refused . Leaving a force to be- siege Dublin Castle , Offaly marched into the territory of the Butlers , and laid waste the county of Kilkenny . Then returning to ...
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Page 256 - Though in her tomb she lies helpless and motionless, still there is on her lips a spirit of life, and on her cheek a glow of beauty : Thou art not conquered : beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 220 - I am now to address a free people ! Ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation.
Page 256 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 88 - My ancestors were kings of Ulster ; and Ulster is mine, and shall be mine. O'Donnell shall never come into his country, nor Bagenal into Newry, nor Kildare into Dundrum or Lecale. They are now mine. With this sword I won them — with this sword I will keep them.
Page 200 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 201 - It is true, indeed, that within the memory of man, the Parliaments of England have sometimes assumed the power of binding this kingdom by laws enacted there...
Page 241 - Mr. Sheriff, take the body of Tone into custody; take the provost-marshal and Major Sandys into custody, and show the order of the court to General Craig.
Page 161 - Even after the barricade had been passed, there was a terrible half-hour of suspense. It was ten o'clock before the ships arrived at the quay. The whole population was there to welcome them. A screen made of casks filled with earth was hastily thrown up to protect the landing-place from the batteries on the other side of the river; and then the work of unloading began. First were rolled on shore barrels containing six thousand bushels of meal. Then came great cheeses, casks of beef, flitches of bacon,...
Page 3 - Victorious, bearing innumerable epistles. And he gave me one of them, and I read the beginning of it which contained the words,
Page 138 - Being thus entered, we refused them quarter ; having, the day before, summoned the town. I believe we put to the sword the whole number of the defendants. I do not think thirty of the whole number escaped with their lives.