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... subsequently reunited . The quartz rock of Shankhill , if not in actual con- tact with the granite , is only separated from it by the intervention of a thin film of micaceous schist ; and at Ballinascorney , the argillaceous schist is ...
... subsequently reunited . The quartz rock of Shankhill , if not in actual con- tact with the granite , is only separated from it by the intervention of a thin film of micaceous schist ; and at Ballinascorney , the argillaceous schist is ...
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... himself at first of the Isle of Man , and subsequently ( ac- cording to the Chronicon Manniæ ) of Dublin and the adjacent country . In the ensuing century , immediately after the successful in- THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN . 21.
... himself at first of the Isle of Man , and subsequently ( ac- cording to the Chronicon Manniæ ) of Dublin and the adjacent country . In the ensuing century , immediately after the successful in- THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN . 21.
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... subsequently , King Henry the Second held his court in the village of Hogges , which , though now a populous street in the heart of the city , still retains the rural name of College - Green , the claims of his favourites for ...
... subsequently , King Henry the Second held his court in the village of Hogges , which , though now a populous street in the heart of the city , still retains the rural name of College - Green , the claims of his favourites for ...
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... subsequently , with the sanction of the Most Rev. Doctor Murray , taken on lease from the Dominicans , and now appro- priated as the parochial chapel of Clonturk or Drum- condra . Mr. Younge also intended by his will to endow a school ...
... subsequently , with the sanction of the Most Rev. Doctor Murray , taken on lease from the Dominicans , and now appro- priated as the parochial chapel of Clonturk or Drum- condra . Mr. Younge also intended by his will to endow a school ...
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... subsequently distinguished himself at Plassey in Bengal . At one side of the church , in the demesne of Mr. Vernon , a specimen of castellated architecture has been recently erected ; at the other , are seen the house and beautiful ...
... subsequently distinguished himself at Plassey in Bengal . At one side of the church , in the demesne of Mr. Vernon , a specimen of castellated architecture has been recently erected ; at the other , are seen the house and beautiful ...
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Page 81 - 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.
Page 301 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time?
Page 55 - I am to be gathered unto my people : bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of "Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying-place.
Page 345 - VILLA.* WOULD you that Delville I describe ? Believe me, Sir, I will not gibe: For who would be satirical Upon a thing so very small ? You scarce upon the borders enter, Before you're at the very centre. A single crow can make it night, When o'er your farm she takes her flight : Yet, in this narrow compass, we Observe a vast variety ; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales...
Page 346 - Observe a vast variety; Both walks, walls, meadows, and parterres, Windows and doors, and rooms and stairs, And hills and dales, and woods and fields, And hay, and grass, and corn, it yields: All to your haggard...
Page 142 - And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.
Page 203 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 820 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Page 417 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life, and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear; From nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had lived, and that he died.
Page 55 - And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt: but I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace.