A General History of Ireland: From the Earliest Accounts to the Close of the Twelfth Century, Collected from the Most Authentic Records. In which New and Interesting Lights are Thrown on the Remote Histories of Other Nations as Well as of Both Britains, Nide 2

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Sivu 361 - You then, most dear son in Christ, have signified to us your desire to enter into the island of Ireland, in order to reduce the people to obedience unto laws, and to extirpate the plants of vice ; and that you are willing to pay from each house a' yearly pension of one penny to St.
Sivu 361 - ... apostolic see, in which the maturer your deliberation, and the greater the discretion of your procedure, by so much the happier we trust will be your progress, with the assistance of the Lord, as all things are used to come to a prosperous end and issue, which take their beginning from the ardour of faith and the love of religion.
Sivu 263 - ... number of enemies. But Morrogh, with great presence of mind, called out to his brave Dalgais, " that this was the time to distinguish themselves, as they alone would have the unrivalled glory of cutting off that formidable body of the enemy.
Sivu 372 - Si ergo quod concepisti animo, effectu duxeris prosequente complendum, stude gentem illam bonis moribus informare : et agas tam per te, quam per illos quos ad hoc fide...
Sivu 261 - April 1014, in three divisions, and was joined by Malachie, King of Meath. He encamped, as he had done the year before, near Kilmainham.
Sivu 361 - Church, as your excellency also doth acknowledge; and therefore, we are the more solicitous to propagate the righteous plantation of faith in this land, and the branch acceptable to God, as we have the secret conviction of conscience that this is more especially our bounden duty.
Sivu 94 - His successors were sometimes called bishops of Kerry. The remains of churches, abbies, and religious houses, with inscriptions, remarkable tombs, &c. at this day sufficiently proclaim its ancient magnificence. An anchorite tower of 120 feet high, the finest in Ireland, and standing near the cathedral, fell down in the year 1771; and as, in all human probability, it fell never to rise again! I leave this memorial of it: of this noble city, the ancient capital of Kerry, no other monuments but the...
Sivu 364 - O'Neal, king of Ulster, presented in 1330, to John, the twenty. second bishop of Rome, in the name of the Irish nation. " During the course of so many ages (3,000 years) our sovereigns preserved the independency of their country ; attacked more than once by foreign powers, they wanted neither force nor courage to repel the bold invaders ; but that which they dared to do against force they could not do against the simple decree of one of your predecessors, Adrian,
Sivu 361 - We therefore, with that grace and acceptance suited to your pious and laudable design, and favourably assenting to your petition, do hold it good and acceptable, that, for extending the borders of the Church, restraining the progress of vice, for the correction of manners, the planting of virtue, and the increase of...
Sivu 208 - Mac Cuillenan and other chiefs. Heralds were sent to require the Danes to surrender Limerick and give hostages for their future good behaviour; the reply of those marauders, however, was that ' so far from waiting to be attacked they would march out of the city to give open battle.

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