Captain Rock detected; or, The origin ... of the recent disturbances and the ... alarming condition of the south and west of Ireland ... considered [in reply to T. Moore's Memoirs of capt. Rock] by a Munster farmer [M. O'Sullivan]. |
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Page 447 - That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 416 - Catholic priesthood; they have been ill treated, and they may yield for a moment to the influence of nature, though it be opposed to grace. This clergy, with few exceptions, are from the ranks of the people ; they inherit their feelings : they are not, as formerly, brought up under despotic governments ; and they have imbibed the doctrines of Locke and Paley, more deeply than those of Bellarmin, or even of Bossuet on the divine right of kings ; they know much more of the principles of the Constitution...
Page 292 - who sold for them the independance of their native " land, and the birth-right of their people : until that " period, tithes were almost unknown in this country, " and from the day of their introduction, we may date " the history of our misfortunes; they were not the only After some time, and within the same week, two answers appeared to the bishop's violent letter; one entitled, " Observations on the " Letter of JKL
Page 261 - Agencj of divine Providence manifested in the principal transactions, religious and political, connected with the history of Great Britain, from the Reformation to the Revolution.
Page 349 - In the mean time, the young man from whom he parted with a blessing, had armed himself, and gone in pursuit of his unsuspecting victim ; and while his mind was, perhaps, occupied with benevolent projects for his murderer — the murderer stood silently at his back, and, with the heavy coulter of a plough, beat in his skull, and repeated his blows until his benefactor was lying a mangled corse upon the snow. " Rock is the boy to make the fun stir...
Page 271 - Kevin's, was, that one of the clergy recited at the " grave a form of prayer for the soul of the deceased ; '' that the remaining clergy, if more than one were " present, and sometimes the laity, joined in the...
Page 292 - should always have been odious ; they were the price paid by Henry II. and the legate Paparo to the Irish prelates, who sold for them the independence of their native land, and the birthright of their people...
Page 348 - Middleton, on a lease for his own life ; and (the lease of one of the persons to whom he had re-let the ground having expired) he gave a farm, containing about thirty acres, to his son, whom he wished to leave in possession of so much on his own demise. The tenants began to think that, if Mr. Sheehy died while they were in possession, they might have their leases continued under Lord Middleton, as their immediate landlord : and the resolution was adopted to murder an innocent kind-hearted old man,...
Page 198 - Stanley,' says the author of Rock Detected, ' was on the estates of his noble grandfather, visiting in person and alone the cabins of the tenantry, seeing with his own eyes their condition, and leaving behind him a remembrance that will make his generosity and benevolence and encouraging condescension, well known and loved with enthusiasm by the grand-children of the men to whose hearts he imparted a hope to which they had long been strangers. Oh ! that he was imitated!
Page 337 - ... upon them, and imported themselves with their poverty and peevishness, in return for the large revenue they send annually away for the satisfaction of their creditors in England. Oh ! this dreadful absenteeship ! Who has ever looked upon a group of the peasantry of Ireland, and has not mourned for their desertion ? And to think of the love and the homage from which our absentees fly away ! I well remember when the name of , would have sent a trumpet tone into all hearts within the limits of an...