Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicus, Volume 2Charles Vallancey L. White, 1786 |
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... himself maketh it nearer than Pytheas did : But I think , fays he , that northern bound to be much nearer to the fouth ; for they who furvey that part of the globe , can give no account beyond Ireland , an ifle which lies not far ...
... himself maketh it nearer than Pytheas did : But I think , fays he , that northern bound to be much nearer to the fouth ; for they who furvey that part of the globe , can give no account beyond Ireland , an ifle which lies not far ...
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... himself to a bare equality of fhare with every other male of the family , yet he referves the chief pro- perty of the estate as vefted in himself during his life , by fubje & ting all the other shares to a chief rent , which was to be ...
... himself to a bare equality of fhare with every other male of the family , yet he referves the chief pro- perty of the estate as vefted in himself during his life , by fubje & ting all the other shares to a chief rent , which was to be ...
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... himself to be mifled so much with refpect to the Irish , as to de- clare his opinion lately in a very learned affembly , that " the kings of Ireland , even fo late as the reign of Richard II . feem to have been as little civilized as ...
... himself to be mifled so much with refpect to the Irish , as to de- clare his opinion lately in a very learned affembly , that " the kings of Ireland , even fo late as the reign of Richard II . feem to have been as little civilized as ...
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... himself , who was well acquainted with the Danish fettlements at Dublin , Waterford and Limerick , and with the Danish clergy , many of whom poffeffed high dig- nities in the church , fuggested nothing to contra- dict them . Our own ...
... himself , who was well acquainted with the Danish fettlements at Dublin , Waterford and Limerick , and with the Danish clergy , many of whom poffeffed high dig- nities in the church , fuggested nothing to contra- dict them . Our own ...
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... himself intimates a fufpicion of his authority . Neither are they the Pyratheïa of the Perfians , a notion lately taken up on the authority of Mr. Hanway ( t ) , who in his travels into Perfia , found round towers in the country of the ...
... himself intimates a fufpicion of his authority . Neither are they the Pyratheïa of the Perfians , a notion lately taken up on the authority of Mr. Hanway ( t ) , who in his travels into Perfia , found round towers in the country of the ...
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Page 247 - An Essay on the Antiquity of the Irish Language ; being a Collation of the Irish with the Punic Language. With a Preface proving Ireland to be the Thule of the Ancients.
Page 199 - Phoenicians, that is from the left to the right, and from the right to the left alternately, as is evinced from the infcriptions at New-Grange and from feveral MSS.
Page 124 - I dare boldly eay, that never any particular person, either before or since, did build any stone or brick house for his private habitation, but such as have lately obtained estates, according to the course of the law of England. Neither did any of them in all this time plant any gardens or orchards, inclose or improve their lands, live together in settled villages or towns: nor make any provision for posterity...
Page 285 - On St. Bridget's Eve every farmer's wife in Ireland makes a cake, called Bairinbreac ; the neighbours are invited, the madder of ale and the pipe go round, and the evening concludes with mirth and festivity.
Page 416 - Commissioners have actually proceeded to the publication, yea, and forcing it upon the city by terror and threats, rather than by any free consent or desire of the people.
Page 473 - In June, 1614, I bargained with Sir Walter Butler for to make a tomb for the Earl of Ormond, and to set it up in Ireland ; for the which I had well paid me £100 in hand and £300 when the work was set up at Kilkenny, Ireland.
Page 278 - Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
Page 377 - Robert Talbot, a worthie gentleman inclofed with walls the better part of the towne, by which it was greatly fortified.
Page 370 - ... fides, fo that on the back they make men feem women, and this they call by a ridiculous name gown.
Page 128 - It is moil certain, that thofe high, round, narrow towers of ftone, built cylinder-wife, whereof Cambrenfis fpeaks, were never known or built in Ireland, as indeed no more were any caftles, houfes, or even churches of ftone, at leaft in the north of Ireland, before the year of Chrift 838, when the heathen Danes poffefling a great part of that country, built them in feveral places, to ferve as watch-towers againft the natives. Though ere long the Danes being...