The History of the Town of Belfast, with an Accurate Account of Its Former and Present State: To which are Added a Statistical Survey of the Parish of Belfast and a Description of Some Remarkable Antiquities in Its Neighborhood |
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Page 60 - June ; and in the report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords...
Page 57 - We, too, have a country and we hold it very dear; so dear to us its interest, that we wish all civil and religious intolerance annihilated in this land ; so dear to us its honour, that we wish an eternal stop to the traffic of public liberty, which is bought by one and sold to another; so dear to us its, freedom, that we wish for nothing so much as a real representative of the national will, the surest guide and guardian of national happiness.
Page 10 - Belfast as the best and most convenient place in Ulster for the establishment of shipwrights. He was likewise influenced in this choice by the extensive forests which grew in the neighbourhood, a circumstance which is sufficiently proved by an order of lord deputy Grey, in 1581, to permit the mayor and inhabitants of Carrickfergus to convey timber from 10 ** the woods of Belfast...
Page 57 - Much as MEN. It is good for human nature, that the grass grows where the Bastile stood. We do rejoice at an event, which seemed the breaking of a charm, that held universal France in a Bastile of civil and religious bondage.
Page 200 - ... post: the inhuman wretch who inflicted the wound, was a gentleman of some rank in the county, but his name, for many reasons, I shall not mention. The unhappy sufferer was standing in his way, and, without requesting him to move, he struck him with less ceremony than an English country squire would a dog. But what astonished me even more than the deed, and which shews the difference between English and Irish, feeling, was, that not a murmur was heard, nor hand raised in disapprobation ; but the...
Page 256 - Ring, one of the most stupendous and extraordinary monuments of antiquity in Ireland. It consists of an enormous circle, perfectly level, about five hundred and eighty feet in diameter, or nearly one-third of an Irish mile in circumference, comprising an area of eight plantation or nearly thirteen statute acres. This vast ring is enclosed by an earthen mound or outwork, upwards of eighty feet in breadth at the base; and though it is probable, in the lapse of nearly two thousand years, the height...
Page 256 - ... the other, and upwards of a foot in thickness at the edges, but in the centre considerably more. This cromlech is either very erroneously described by Mr. Harris, or its appearance has greatly altered since the year 1744. We are informed in the History of the County Down, that two ranges of pillars...
Page 58 - Our Gallic brethren were born July 14, 1789 ; alas ! we are still in embryo." On the reverse, " Superstitious jealousy the cause of the Irish Bastile: let us
Page 4 - Lagan, forming for many miles the boundary between the counties of Down and Antrim, was fordable at this place, which ford, it is probable, formed, at least for a Considerable distance, the principal means of communication between -the inhabitants of the opposite sides of the river, and was in general use for this purpose before the erection of the long bridge in 1682. THE utmost obscurity and perplexity, however, attend the derivation of the name. In " A Map of Ireland previous to the thirteenth...
Page 57 - In another place the following paragraph occurs : " We, too, have a country and we hold it very dear; so dear to us its interest, that we wish all civil and religious intolerance annihilated in this land ; so dear to us its honour, that we wish an eternal stop to the traffic of public liberty, which is bought by one and sold to another; so dear to us its, freedom, that we wish for nothing so much as a real representative of the...