Priests and People in Ireland

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Hodges, Figgis & Company, Limited, 1902 - 624 pagine
 

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Pagina 213 - WHEN Britain first at Heaven's command Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain : Rule, Britannia ! Britannia rules the waves ! Britons never shall be slaves.
Pagina 431 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Pagina 570 - And JESUS said, I am : and ye shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
Pagina 538 - you have your wish, there are your Saxon foes! " The marshal almost smiles to see, so furiously he goes! How fierce the look these exiles wear, who're wont to be so gay, The treasured wrongs of fifty years are in their hearts to-day — The treaty broken, ere the ink wherewith 'twas writ could dry, Their plundered homes, their ruined shrines, their women's parting cry, Their priesthood hunted down like wolves, their country overthrown, — Each looks as if revenge for all were staked on him alone....
Pagina 574 - And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus, turning unto them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
Pagina 165 - Maguire, those souls of fire, whose names are shrined in story — Think how their high achievements once made Erin's greatest glory — Yet now their bones lie mouldering under weeds and cypress boughs, And so, for all your pride, will yours, O, Woman of Three Cows!
Pagina 496 - As beautiful Kitty one morning was tripping With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine, When she saw me she stumbled, the pitcher it tumbled, And all the sweet buttermilk watered the plain.
Pagina 573 - When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death : and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Pagina 460 - ... children. Great hearts ! how faithful ye were. How ye bristled up when the foe came on, how ye set your teeth to die as his shells and round-shot fell steadily ; and with how firm a cheer ye dashed at him, if he gave you any chance at all of a grapple. From the wild burst with which ye triumphed at Oulart hill, down to the faint gasp wherewith the last of your last column died in the corn fields of Meath, there is nothing to shame your valour, your faith, or your patriotism.
Pagina 461 - Tis there I'd sit and cry my fill, And every tear would turn a mill, Is go...

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