Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Հատոր 1R. Phillips, 1807 |
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Էջ 129 - Nations are governed by the same methods, and on the same principles, by which an individual without authority is often able to govern those who are his equals or his superiors ; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it...
Էջ 117 - ... carried on, particularly from Chichester's time, in the ordinary courts of justice, and by special commissions and inquisitions ; first, under pretence of tenures, and then of titles in the crown, for the purpose of the total extirpation of the interest of the natives in their own soil — until this species of subtle ravage, being carried to the last excess of oppression and insolence under lord Strafford, it kindled the flames of that rebellion which broke out in 164>1.
Էջ 61 - ... way, when they had lost it, in their sports ; or, at best, who had known them only as footmen, or other domestics, of the second and third order ; and so averse were they, some time ago, to have them near their persons, that they would not employ even those who could never find their way beyond the stable. I well remember a great, and in many respects a good man, who advertised for a blacksmith ; but, at the- same time, added, he must be a protestant.
Էջ viii - To blend the imaginary through probable incident with the interesting fact, to authenticate the questioned refinement of ancient habits, by the testimony of living modes, faithfully to delineate what I had intimately observed, and to found my opinions on that medium which ever vibrates between the partial delineation of national prejudice, on one side, and the exaggerated details of foreign antipathy on the other ; such was the prospectus my wishes dared to draw. Apart from its high-flown diction,...
Էջ x - ... is impossible to examine without interest, or to embrace without enthusiasm. Politics can never be a woman's science ; but patriotism must naturally be a woman's sentiment. It is inseparably connected with all those ties of tenderness which her heart is calculated to cherish, and though the energy of the citizen may not animate her feelings to acts of national heroism, the fondness of the child, the mistress, the wife and the mother, must warm and ennoble them into sentiments of national affection.
Էջ 105 - ... I have a wife and six children." " Then of course you must have some ground for their maintenance?" * I have been assured, however, that sixpence a day, throughout the year, is in general the averaged hire in most parts of Connaught. Many persons still living remember it so low as fourpence. — "Oh ! yes, two acres at 5/. an acre ; but what with the tythe proctor, the priest's dues being raised, and the weaver having doubled his prices, that day goes by well enough, when we can afford a drop...
Էջ 124 - A Capitulary was made in that Synod, wherein it is said, that in the last famine the spikes of corn were found to contain no seed,? the infernal spirits having devoured it all, and that those spirits had been heard to reproach them with not having paid the tithes...
Էջ iv - It was requisite therefore I should leave my native country to learn the turpitude, degradation, ferocity, and inconsequence of her offspring; the miseries of her present, and the falsity of the recorded splendours of her ancient state.
Էջ 4 - ... copied with the same rude simplicity with which they were drawn in the moment of passing observation, as the heart was touched by objects of moral interest, or the fancy awakened by scenes of natural beauty. I had watched the last beam of the setting sun stealing his faded splendours from the last of those lakes which precede the entrance of the cavern-path, and the broken and irregular masses of rock which arose pyramidically on either side, partially caught the retreating glow of the horizon,...
Էջ 23 - I sat down on the tomb of the royal O'Connor, and plucked the weed or blew away the thistle " that waved there its lonely head." The sun was setting in gloomy splendour, and the lofty angles of the abbey-tower alone caught the reflection of his dying beams, from the summits of the mountains where they still lingered...