Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its Agriculture and Rural Population; in a Series of Letters, Written on a Tour Through that Country, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818 |
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Pagina xv
... persons in one cabin - Improvident marriages increase the demand for small farms - A rich Irish peasant - Meadows and hay - Inn at Raphoe ............... LETTER XXI . General decorum in town of Raphoe - Mr . Montgomery's seat at Convoy ...
... persons in one cabin - Improvident marriages increase the demand for small farms - A rich Irish peasant - Meadows and hay - Inn at Raphoe ............... LETTER XXI . General decorum in town of Raphoe - Mr . Montgomery's seat at Convoy ...
Pagina 6
... persons who might be deemed likely to become chargeable to the parishes in which they re- sided . No length of time , no period of a labo- rious life , not even fidelity irreproachable , were sufficient to entitle these poor wretches to ...
... persons who might be deemed likely to become chargeable to the parishes in which they re- sided . No length of time , no period of a labo- rious life , not even fidelity irreproachable , were sufficient to entitle these poor wretches to ...
Pagina 7
... persons are frequently very opposite . In some it would contribute to magnify all objects beyond their due proportions - in others , to contract and reduce them below their real standard . How my mind may be operated on , time alone ...
... persons are frequently very opposite . In some it would contribute to magnify all objects beyond their due proportions - in others , to contract and reduce them below their real standard . How my mind may be operated on , time alone ...
Pagina 12
... persons were completely iso- lated ; and never even heard the sound of a third human voice , unless when the intervals of the raging storm conveyed the unavailing cries of the shipwrecked mariner . To support such an existence seemed to ...
... persons were completely iso- lated ; and never even heard the sound of a third human voice , unless when the intervals of the raging storm conveyed the unavailing cries of the shipwrecked mariner . To support such an existence seemed to ...
Pagina 13
... wrong doing , in the hands of un- principled persons , who might avail themselves of them by accident or stratagem . A record of conversations is scarcely allowable even for in- 14 Reflections . dividual reference ; but when it is.
... wrong doing , in the hands of un- principled persons , who might avail themselves of them by accident or stratagem . A record of conversations is scarcely allowable even for in- 14 Reflections . dividual reference ; but when it is.
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Observations on the State of Ireland, principally directed to its ..., Volume 1 J. C. Curwen Volledige weergave - 1818 |
Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its ..., Volume 1 John Christian Curwen Volledige weergave - 1818 |
Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its ..., Volume 1 John Christian Curwen Volledige weergave - 1818 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 198 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Pagina 168 - ... are taken up with a general applause, and usually sung at all feasts and meetings by certain other persons, whose proper function that is, who also receive for the same great rewards and reputation amongst them.
Pagina 39 - Feuds. 39 castle, whose elevated turrets afforded a commanding and extensive view of the surrounding country. No enemy could approach it in the day time, without the garrison having sufficient warning. Vigilance, incessant vigilance, could alone prevent surprise ; to induce which, a favourite maxim became the border motto, and has been handed down to posterity : " If they come, they come not ; If they come not, they come.
Pagina 266 - Soon after the explosion commenced a number of meteorites fell to the ground over an area a mile and a half in length and half a mile in breadth. The following masses have been collected : — 1.
Pagina 139 - When popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of the government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise.
Pagina 139 - When popular discontents have been very prevalent, it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Pagina 182 - Israelite ; he was without shoes or stockings, and almost a sans-culotte ; with a coat, or rather a jacket, that appeared as if the first blast of wind would tear it to tatters. Though his garb was thus tattered, he had a manly commanding countenance. I asked permission to see the inside of his cabin, to which I received his most courteous assent. On stooping to enter at the door, I was stopped, and found that permission from another was necessary before 1 could be admitted.
Pagina 141 - I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge...
Pagina 229 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Pagina 168 - Iren. There is amongst the Irish a certain kind of people., called Bards, which are to them instead of poets, whose profession is to set forth the praises or dispraises of men in their poems or...