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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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. When it raineth it is his pent-house; when it bloweth it is his tent ; when it freezeth it is his tabernacle.
Page 474 - In sommer he can wear it loose, in winter he can wrap it close : at all times he can use it ; never heavy, never cumbersome. Likewise for a rebel it is as serviceable : for in his...
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 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 470 - I will begin then to count their customes in the same order that I counted their nations, and first with the Scythian or Scottish manners. 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 498 - I have caused divers of them to be translated unto me, that I might understand them, and surely they savoured of sweet wit and good invention...
Page 434 - ... into the English Pale, which then was chiefly in the North, from the point of Donluce, and beyond unto Dublin : having in the middest of her Knockfergus, Belfast, Armagh, and Carlingford, which are now the most outbounds and abandoned places in the English Pale, and indeede not counted of the English Pale at all : for it stretcheth now no further then Dundalke towardes the North.
Page 474 - ... freebooting, it is his best and surest friend ; for lying, as they often do, two or three nights together abroad to watch for their booty, with that they can prettily shroud themselves under a bush or bankside till they may conveniently do their errand...