The Story of Ireland: A Narrative of Irish History from the Earliest Ages to the Insurrection of 1867, Written for the Youth of IrelandP. J. Kenedy, 1892 - 657 sider |
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... events which I have myself witnessed ; I have be- sides collected information orally from those whom I believed to be at once well informed and honest . I have consulted few books , but have been materially aided by Mr. Sullivan's " New ...
... events which I have myself witnessed ; I have be- sides collected information orally from those whom I believed to be at once well informed and honest . I have consulted few books , but have been materially aided by Mr. Sullivan's " New ...
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... or unknown to previous history - writers , not only throw a flood of light upon many periods of our history heretofore darkened and obscured , but may be said to have given to many of the most important events in our annals an.
... or unknown to previous history - writers , not only throw a flood of light upon many periods of our history heretofore darkened and obscured , but may be said to have given to many of the most important events in our annals an.
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... events in our annals an aspect totally new , and in some instances the reverse of that com- monly assigned to them . Mr. Haverty's book is Irish history clearly and faithfully traced , and carefully corrected by recent invaluable ...
... events in our annals an aspect totally new , and in some instances the reverse of that com- monly assigned to them . Mr. Haverty's book is Irish history clearly and faithfully traced , and carefully corrected by recent invaluable ...
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... events were loosely hand- ed down by unregulated " hearsay " which no one was charged to guard from exaggeration and corruption , some of the facts thus commemorated became gradually distorted , until after great lapse of time ...
... events were loosely hand- ed down by unregulated " hearsay " which no one was charged to guard from exaggeration and corruption , some of the facts thus commemorated became gradually distorted , until after great lapse of time ...
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... events by this means , was , at first , unguarded or unregulated by any public authority , and accordingly led to much confu- sion , exaggeration , and corruption ; but we have positive and certain information that at length steps were ...
... events by this means , was , at first , unguarded or unregulated by any public authority , and accordingly led to much confu- sion , exaggeration , and corruption ; but we have positive and certain information that at length steps were ...
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Side 488 - 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.
Side 65 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Side 482 - De Barri's wood, the British soldiers burst, The French artillery drove them back, diminished and dispersed. The bloody Duke of Cumberland beheld with anxious eye, And ordered up his last reserve, his latest chance to try. On Fontenoy, on Fontenoy, how fast his generals ride! And mustering come his chosen troops, like clouds at eventide. Six thousand English veterans...
Side 458 - Far dearer the grave or the prison, Illumed by one patriot name, Than the trophies of all, who have risen On Liberty's ruins to fame.
Side 643 - I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce and I must abide by.
Side 482 - King Louis madly cried: To death they rush, but rude their shock — not unavenged they died. On through the camp the column trod — King Louis turns his rein: "Not yet, my liege...