Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, Band 3

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Seite 83 - English ashamed of the reproaches they cast on the ignorance, the dulness, and the want of courage, in the Irish natives ; those defects, wherever they happen, arising only from the^ poverty and slavery they suffer from their inhuman neighbours...
Seite 83 - By such events as these, the very Grecians are grown slavish, ignorant, and superstitious. I do assert that from several experiments I have made in travelling over both kingdoms, I have found the poor cottagers here, who could speak our language, to have a much better natural taste for good sense, humour, and raillery, than ever I observed among people of the like sortwn England.
Seite 82 - I cannot but highly esteem those gentlemen of Ireland, who, with all the disadvantages of being exiles and strangers, have been able to distinguish themselves by their valour and conduct in so many parts of Europe, I think above all other nations...
Seite 418 - I received your letter, wherein you threaten to sack this my castle by his majesty's authority. I have ever been a loyal subject, and a good neighbour among you, and therefore cannot but wonder at such an assault. I thank you for your offer of a convoy, wherein I hold little safety; and therefore my resolution is, that being free from offending his majesty, or doing wrong to any of you, I will live and die innocently...
Seite 164 - We felled the trees that were on the top of the hill, and having cleared the same from bushes for about two musket shot we began to build a redoubt of eighty feet long and forty...
Seite 35 - If the hole be too small, they put either the hand or foot through it, and with a sufficient degree of faith it answers nearly the same purpose.
Seite 135 - Secretary, read the Report of the Council for the past year, which was adopted, on the motion of Mr.
Seite 11 - True Geraldines! brave Geraldines! — as torrents mould the earth, You channelled deep old Ireland's heart by constancy and worth: When Ginckle 'leaguered Limerick, the Irish soldiers gazed To see if in the setting sun dead Desmond's banner blazed ! And still it is the peasants' hope upon the Cuirreach's1 mere, "They live, who'll see ten thousand men with good Lord Edward here...
Seite 417 - We, his majesty's loyal subjects, at the present employed in his highness's service, for the sacking of your castle, you are therefore to deliver unto us the free possession of your said castle, promising faithfully that your ladyship, together with the rest within your said castle resiant...
Seite 286 - I drink water out of my steel cap, when ye drink wine out of golden cups. My courser is trained to the field, when your jennet is taught to amble. When you are be-graced and belorded, and crouched and kneeled unto, then find I small grace from our Irish borderers unless I cut them short by the knees.

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