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, Volumen1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818 |
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... doubt , would sicken at the idea of imposing such a task upon themselves ; but as we are all the children of habit , the attempt once made , and persevered in for a short time , would soon become a custom more irksome to omit , than it ...
... doubt , would sicken at the idea of imposing such a task upon themselves ; but as we are all the children of habit , the attempt once made , and persevered in for a short time , would soon become a custom more irksome to omit , than it ...
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... doubts may indeed arise in the minds of others , whether profitable returns have been sufficiently consulted . It would certainly be adviseable that improvements of this description , especially when meditated on a large scale , should ...
... doubts may indeed arise in the minds of others , whether profitable returns have been sufficiently consulted . It would certainly be adviseable that improvements of this description , especially when meditated on a large scale , should ...
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... doubt in my mind , whether the scenery before me was , really and in truth , endowed with all the fascination I was desirous it should inspire . This serves to explain , in some measure , the contrariety of opinions and 20 Superiority ...
... doubt in my mind , whether the scenery before me was , really and in truth , endowed with all the fascination I was desirous it should inspire . This serves to explain , in some measure , the contrariety of opinions and 20 Superiority ...
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... doubt , like our- selves , depended on their own energies , and waited not for chamber - maids to call them waiters to attend them - and ostlers to make ready their carriages ; it was fortunate for us that our motions depended not on ...
... doubt , like our- selves , depended on their own energies , and waited not for chamber - maids to call them waiters to attend them - and ostlers to make ready their carriages ; it was fortunate for us that our motions depended not on ...
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... doubt , at this day , to the contrary . A few years ago an Act was obtained for im- proving the navigation of the Nith , from Dum- fries to its junction with the Solway Frith ; some progress has been made , and hopes are enter- tained ...
... doubt , at this day , to the contrary . A few years ago an Act was obtained for im- proving the navigation of the Nith , from Dum- fries to its junction with the Solway Frith ; some progress has been made , and hopes are enter- tained ...
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acre Adieu admiration afford appearance attention Bally Ballymoney basalt beautiful become Belfast bestowed cabin Castle cattle Causeway character cleanliness Closeburn clover coal Coleraine comfort consequence considerable contemplation corn cottiers crops cultivation Derry distance Donaghadee doubt effect England estimation extensive farm farmer favourable feelings feet fiorin Giant's Causeway Giraldus Cambrensis Glenluce grain gratifying habit happy highly hills hope horses human hundred husbandry improvements induced inhabitants interest Ireland Irish J. C. C. LETTER labor land less Limavady Lord Lough Erne Lough Foyle Lough Neagh Lough Swilly lower orders luxuriant manure ment Merton Hall miles mind misery mountain nature neighbourhood neighbours oats object observed occasion opinion party passed persons poor Port Patrick potatoes pounds practice present procured produce profitable rent road scarcely Scotch Scotland shillings shore side soil Stranraer surface tion town traveller turnips visiting Ireland wheat whence Wigton
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...