Ireland Exhibited to England: In a Political and Moral Survey of Her Population, and in a Statistical and Scenographic Tour of Certain Districts; Comprehending Specimens of Her Colonisation, Natural History and Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Commerce ... With a Letter to the Members of His Majesty's Government on the State of Ireland, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823 |
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Pagina 20 - Moses* seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.
Pagina 370 - Staff colonnades ; but, as Mr. Pennant institutes the comparison, I must tell him that, while the longest pillar at Staffa is 55 feet, ours at Fair-head are 250. The continuous colonnade at Fair-head is longer than the whole island of Staffa; and the colonnade at Bengore three times as long, and one...
Pagina 285 - Hi tres in Duno tumulo tumulantur in uno ; Brigida, Patricius, atque Columba pius.
Pagina 295 - All the people of this part of India are Hindoos, and retain the old religion, with all its superstition; this makes the Pagodas here much more numerous than in any other part of the peninsula ; their form too is different, being chiefly buildings of a cylindrical or round tower shape, with their tops either pointed or truncated at the...
Pagina 370 - Fair-head are 250. The continuous colonnade at Fair-head is longer than the whole island of Staffa; and the colonnade at Bengore three times as long, and one of its two parallel ranges of pillars equal to the solitary range in Staffa. Though I never saw Staffa, I may fairly pronounce our facades to be far more stupendous ; for the highest point in the island of Staffa is but 126 feet above the level of the sea, while Pteskin, scarcely higher than the rest of the fagade, is 370, and the uniform columnar...
Pagina 312 - The Irish houses are the poorest cabins I have seen, erected in the middle of the fields and grounds, which they farm and rent.
Pagina xviii - I have the honour to be, my lords and gentlemen, " Your obedient servant, " J. RUSSELL. " To certain lay members of the Church of England.
Pagina 347 - ... 14.) But, without going to that ancient rigour, after numerous corruptions had crept in with the progress of wealth, even then the ancient law was again confirmed which divided ecclesiastical revenues into four portions ; one to go to the bishop for hospitality, and the relief of those in want, another to the clergy, a third to the poor, and a fourth to the repairing of churches. Gregory attests that this rule was in full observance even in his day. Besides, were there no laws on the subject,...
Pagina 311 - Hill) hath a brave plantation, which he holds by lease, which still is for thirty years to come ; the land is my Lord Chichester's, and the lease was made for sixty years to Sir Moyses Hill by the old Lord Chichester. This plantation is said doth yield him a ^1000 per annum. Many Lankashire and Cheshire men are here planted; with some of them I conversed.
Pagina 311 - They sit upon a rack rent, and pay 5s. or 6s. an acre for good ploughing land, which now is clothed with excellent good corn." 1 Child, as we may now infer, was serving Colonel Arthur Hill as agricultural expert, with his headquarters perhaps at what is now Hillsborough Castle, near Belfast.2 Boyle had doubtless been writing to Hartlib about the value of Child's services to Hill in the great enterprise of planting Ulster.