A History of Ireland, from the Earliest Accounts to the Accomplishment of the Union with Great Britain in 1801, Tom 1

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J. Jones, 1805

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Strona 400 - my wife and children are in your power. , Should they receive any injury from men, I fhall never revenge it on women and children. This would be not only bafe and unchriftian, but infinitely beneath the value at which I rate my wife and children.
Strona 447 - ... of troops in Ireland ; none to treat of any other matter without the privity and directions of the lord lieutenant, " much lefs to capitulate any thing concerning religion." In a letter to Ormond and • the privy council he commanded that lord Digby's charge mould be thoroughly and diligently profecuted ; but, at the fame time, in a private letter to the marquis, he directed that the execution of any fentence againft Glamorgan mould be fufpended, as XXIV.
Strona 415 - Irifli government adminiftered in Dublin, by a " malignant party, to his highnefle's great differvice, and in compliance with their confederates, the malignant party of England." They profefled to accept, as their rule of government, the common law of England with the ftatutes of Ireland, fo far as they were confiftent with their liberties, and not adverfe to the roman religion. They declared their resolution to maintain the rights and immunities of the roman catholic church, agreeably to the Great...
Strona 350 - ... was casually observed by one of the guests, that Strafford had been much provoked by a domestic, who had hurt his gouty foot while removing a stool. This domestic had formerly been insulted by the chief governor; in reference to which, Mountnorris observed that he had probably acted by design ; " but," added he, " the gentleman has a brother who would not have taken such a revenge.
Strona 389 - Their imaginations were overpowered and disordered by the recollection of tortures and butchery. In their distraction, every tale of horror was eagerly received, and every suggestion of frenzy and melancholy believed implicitly. Miraculous escapes from death; miraculous judgments on murderers ; lakes and rivers of blood ; marks of slaughter indelible by every human effort; visions of spirits chanting hymns ; ghosts rising from rivers and shrieking out revenge ; these and such like fancies were propagated...
Strona 35 - Irifh could the right of tenure furvive the poffeflbr : " and as the crimes or misfortunes of men frequently forced them from one tribe to another, property was eternally fluctuating, and new partitions of lands made almoft daily.
Strona 389 - Irish ecclesiastics were seen encouraging the carnage. The women forgot the tenderness of their sex; pursued the English with execrations, and embrued their hands in blood: even children, in their feeble malice, lifted the dagger against the helpless prisoners.
Strona 433 - ... formal act for the complete independency of their parliament on that of England ; the exclufion from this parliament of all perfons not eftated and refident in Ireland; a parliamentary inquiry into all breaches of quarter and acts of inhumanity committed by both parties in Ireland, and the exclufion of all perfons guilty of fuch crimes from the act of oblivion.
Strona 166 - Ulfter, marched fouthward," fays Leland, " with a barbarous army, enflamed to madnefs by the violent cravings of nature, and prepared to glut their frantic malice, and allay the rage of hunger, by the bloodieft hoftilities and moft ruthlefs depredations.
Strona 396 - ... of war, to protect the Englifh, and to conceal them from the fury of the enemy, even in their places of worfhip and under their altars.

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