The History of the Policy of the Church of Rome in Ireland: From the Introduction of the English Dynasty to the Great Rebellion |
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... causes of our distress , has gradually made its way into better company . If , indeed , its merits were sufficiently examined by comparing the state of the two countries , and by computing the years of their political connection , its ...
... causes of our distress , has gradually made its way into better company . If , indeed , its merits were sufficiently examined by comparing the state of the two countries , and by computing the years of their political connection , its ...
Page iv
... cause , a new partition of lands . No special claims to in- heritance were derived from primogeniture , legiti- macy , or kindred . Upon the death or emigration of a vassal , his holding reverted to the common stock on the other hand ...
... cause , a new partition of lands . No special claims to in- heritance were derived from primogeniture , legiti- macy , or kindred . Upon the death or emigration of a vassal , his holding reverted to the common stock on the other hand ...
Page viii
... causes , they were able to dictate the terms of their contumacious loyalty . Some of them , as the two great branches of the De Burgo family , the Geraldines of Kerry , and the Berminghams , lords of Athenry , renounced the language ...
... causes , they were able to dictate the terms of their contumacious loyalty . Some of them , as the two great branches of the De Burgo family , the Geraldines of Kerry , and the Berminghams , lords of Athenry , renounced the language ...
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... cause all Ireland could not govern the earl . " Many circumstances had conspired to obtain for Henry the Eighth a general submission from the Irish aristocracy ; and his vigorous common sense knew how to appreciate and improve the rare ...
... cause all Ireland could not govern the earl . " Many circumstances had conspired to obtain for Henry the Eighth a general submission from the Irish aristocracy ; and his vigorous common sense knew how to appreciate and improve the rare ...
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... cause . Dr. Curry , sixty years ago , and Mr. Plow- den lately , have been very angry with archbishop Boulter for avowing his alarm at this strange coalition . Mr. Hardy is even sentimental in his expressions of regret , " that ...
... cause . Dr. Curry , sixty years ago , and Mr. Plow- den lately , have been very angry with archbishop Boulter for avowing his alarm at this strange coalition . Mr. Hardy is even sentimental in his expressions of regret , " that ...
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Page 289 - I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts : for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword ; and I, even I only, am left ; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page 290 - And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks, before the LORD ; but the LORD was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake ; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: and after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire; and after the fire a still small voice.
Page 107 - God's word, or of the sacraments, the which thing the Injunctions also lately set forth by Elizabeth our queen do most plainly testify; but that only prerogative, which we see to have been given always to all godly princes in Holy Scriptures by God himself...
Page 289 - I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts; because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Page xvi - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 167 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could find them; yea, and one another soon 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 57 - To the house of William my son, Hie all the wealth of Kilkenny town. It was also said, that she made assignations, near a certain...
Page 106 - Dominions, unto whom the chief Government of all Estates of this Realm, whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil, in all causes doth appertain, and is not, nor ought to be, subject to any foreign Jurisdiction.
Page xxv - A burst of joy from Lord Charlemont and the very few real friends of the bill, who happened to be present ! The majority of the company, confused, and indeed almost astounded, began, after the first involuntary dejection of their features, to recollect that they had, session after session...
Page 147 - Rome to be the successor of St. Peter in that see, and to have as ample, and no more, authority or jurisdiction over us and other Christians, than had that apostle by the gift and...