A Collection of Tracts and Treatises Illustrative of the Natural History, Antiquities, and the Political and Social State of Ireland: At Various Periods Prior to the Present Century, Volume 1 |
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aliàs aliis Angliæ Anglorum anno apud Archiepiscopus asserit Atque Augustini Bogs Cæterùm Canonicis Canonicorum Caradocus circa annum cœnobii coenobium countries cujus cùm deque dicitur dicti dicto dictus docet Domini doth Dublin Dubliniensis Dublinii Earle ecclesia Edward ejus ejusdem England English eorum episcopus etiam Eudox filio filius floruit fuerunt fuisse fuit Fundatores fundavit Giraldus Giraldus Cambrensis habet hæc hath Henrico Hiber Hiberniæ Hibernicis Hibernorum Hibernos hîc Hoc cœnobium hodiè hujus ibidem Iland Insula inter Ireland Iren Irenæus Irish JAMES WARE Johannes juxta King land Leinster liquet Loca et tituli loci Lord Lough Mariæ Menapiis miles Minorum Munster Neque nomen obiit olim ordinis Ostmannis partem Patricii porrò posteà præ prælio primus quæ quàm quibus quod raigne rege regem Regis Scythians Sect sedes severall sive sunt suprà tamen thereof tituli Tredagh Ulster unto verò vulgò warre
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Page 490 - It seemeth strange to me that the English should take more delight to speak that language than their own, whereas they should, methinks, rather take scorn to inure their tongues thereto. For it hath ever been the use of the conqueror to despise the language of the conquered and to force him by all means to learn his.
Page 526 - 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...
Page 473 - ... in waste places, far from danger of law, maketh his mantle his house, and under it covereth himself from the wrath of heaven, from the offence of the earth, and from the sight of men.
Page 584 - ... so as it may not be hated before it be understood, and their professors despised and rejected: And therefore it is expedient, that some...
Page 4 - ... godliness hath promise of the life that now is," as well as of that which is to come.
Page 530 - Irish, who are much emboldened by those foreign succours, and also put in hope of more ere long, there was no other way but to make that short end of them as was made.
Page 470 - Of the which there is one use amongst them, to keepe their cattle, and to live themselves the most part of the yeare in boolies, pasturing upon the mountaine, and waste wilde places ; and removing still to fresh land, as they have depastured the former.
Page 497 - ... cabin under his mantle, but used commonly to keep others waking to defend their lives; and did light his candle at the flames of their houses to lead him in...
Page 418 - God, as you misdeem ; but it is the manner of men, that when they are fallen into any absurdity, or their actions succeed not as they would, they are always ready to impute the blame thereof unto the heavens, so to excuse their own follies and imperfections.
Page 584 - ... to be found, only to draw the people unto the Church of Rome: whereas some of our idle ministers, having a way for credit and estimation thereby opened unto them...