 | Edmund Burke - 1764 - 582 sivua
...the work he undertakes. ••Wr;The circumftance to be moft lamented with regard1 to the old frifli hiftory, is, that the Danes, in their frequent ravages and invafions of Ireland, during the ninth »nd tenth centuries, burnt all the books and monuments of antiquity that fell in their way ; and that... | |
 | 1806 - 540 sivua
...any records whatfoever, he has recourfe to that pitiful fiftipn of the Iriih anualifts (page 1 6), that " the Danes in their frequent ravages and invafions of Ireland, during the 9th and lOth centuries, bnrnt all the books and monuments of asitiquiiy that fell in their way," and... | |
 | John England - 1849 - 524 sivua
...this ancient and extraordinary kingdom, had not the Danes, in their frequent ravages and invasions of Ireland, during the ninth and tenth centuries,...and monuments of antiquity that fell in their way. We have still more to lament the shameful and fatal. policy of our ancestors, who, from the first mvasion... | |
 | John England - 1908 - 578 sivua
...this ancient and extraordinary kingdom, had not the Danes, in their frequent ravages and invasions of Ireland, during the ninth and tenth centuries,...and monuments of antiquity that fell in their way. We have still more to lament the shameful and fatal policy of our ancestors, •who, from the first... | |
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Danes, in their frequent ravages and invasions of Ireland, during the ninth and tenth centuries, burnt all the books and monuments of antiquity that fell in their way. 