The Story of an Irish Sept: Their Character & Struggle to Maintain Their Lands in Clare

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J.M. Dent, 1896 - 339 Seiten

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Seite 28 - When it raineth it is his pent-house; when it bloweth it is his tent ; when it freezeth it is his tabernacle. In summer he can wear it loose, in winter he can wrap it close ; at all times he can use it ; never heavy, never cumbersome.
Seite 235 - Nomos (Law and Custom), King of all' (to borrow the phrase which Herodotus cites from Pindar), exercises plenary power, spiritual as well as temporal, over individual minds ; moulding the emotions as well as the intellect, according to the local type, — determining the sentiments, the...
Seite 289 - My occupation is now of the most unpleasant nature, negotiating and jobbing with the most corrupt people under heaven. I despise and hate myself every hour, for engaging in such dirty work, and am supported only by the reflection, that without an Union the British Empire must be dissolved.
Seite 309 - If, from these last-mentioned records, it be concluded that the parliament of England may bind Ireland, it must also be allowed that the people of Ireland ought to have their representatives in the parliament of England ; and this, I believe, we should be willing enough to embrace; but this is a happiness we can hardly hope for.
Seite 261 - ... a person who, though no doubt highly blameable for violating the laws of his country, is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been, in every respect, an excellent citizen, had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so.
Seite 162 - ... to be made an earl unless I may be better and higher than an earl, for I am in blood and power better than the best of them ; and I will give place to none but my cousin of Kildare, for that he is of my house.
Seite 289 - The political jobbing of this country gets the better of me. It has ever been the wish of my life to avoid all this dirty business; and I am now involved in it beyond all bearing, and am consequently more wretched than ever.
Seite 135 - Englishman might oppress, spoil, and kill them without controlment, how was it possible they should be other than outlaws and enemies to the Crown of England ? If the King would not admit them to the condition of subjects, how could they learn to acknowledge and obey him as their Sovereign...
Seite 211 - Oh ! once we were illigant people, Though we now live in cabins of mud ; And the land that ye see from the steeple Belonged to us all from the flood. My father was then King of Connaught, My grand-aunt Viceroy of Tralee ; But the Sassenach came, and, signs on it I The devil an acre have we.
Seite 152 - In the name of God amen. The 1 st day of September in the 36th year of the reign of our sovereign lord Henry VIII by the grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, defender of the faith and of the church of England and also of Ireland, in earth the supreme head, and in the year of our Lord God 1544.

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