The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Authentic Accounts, to the Year 1171: Since which Period it Has Been Annexed to the Crown of England. With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Antient & Present State & Condition of that Kingdom, Band 2James Williams, 1770 |
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Seite 155 - ... depends. If the Danes were under a manifeft difadvantage, in having fcarce time enough to form into a line of battle, yet they were much fuperior in the number of men, having all the guards, and the remainder of their land forces on board ; which in fhips without ordnance, make the principal part of their ftrength.
Seite 156 - Making his way up to Sitrick, with his fword, againft all that oppofed him, he grafped him clofe in his arms and threw himfelf with him into the fea; where they both expired together. Two other Iriih captains, being fired with the glory of this...
Seite 197 - Jbidem, nor another account in Dr. Warner's Hiftory of the provifions fent to Brian Boro, as monarch of all Ireland, from three provinces of that ifland, viz. two thoufand fix hundred and feventy oxen, one thoufand three hundred and feventy hogs, one hundred and eighty tons of iron, three hundred and twenty- five hogfheads of claret from the Danes of Limerick, one hundred and fifty pipes of other wine of various forts from the Danes of Dublin, and five hundred mantles from the county of Tirconnel....
Seite 203 - To nobles, haughty and independant, among whom the caufes of dilcord were many and unavoidable, who were quick in difcerning an injury, and impatient to revenge it ; who efteemed it infamous to fubmit to an enemy, and cowardly to forgive him ; who confidered the right of...
Seite 136 - IV. pal cities, who purchafed with it their cattle and * v 'other commodities which their country afforded. Dr. Warner has given us, in his hiftory of Ireland, the will of Cormac king of Munfter and bifhop of Cafliel, in which (as that writer fays) his legacies to abbeys and religious houfes are thus enumerated : " An ounce of gold, an ounce of filver, his horfe "and furniture to Ard-finnan; a gold and filver " chalice and veftment of filk to Lifmore ; a gold *' and filver chalice, four ounces of...
Seite 156 - Danes, rufted violently upon them, caught them up in their arms, after the example of Fingall, and jumping overboard with them, were all loft together. The Danes being equally...
Seite 197 - Greek and Roman, the amount of the revenue fent every year to the palace of Kincora in that province, viz. fourteen hundred and fifty oxen, three thoufand fix hundred and fifty cows, four thoufand eight hundred hogs, two thoufand fix hundred wethers, one hundred horfes, and eleven hundred and fifty mantles ; befides contributions of men and fhips from the Oftmen.
Seite 156 - Dane with irrefiftible fury. . The conteft was hot and bloody; but there being fb many frefh men to fupply the place of the flaughtered or difabled Danes, the Irifh had no profpe& of obtaining the victory.
Seite 78 - He was," says Sir James Ware, "the author of a Discourse on the Antipodes, which he most truly held, though against the received opinion of the ancients, who imagined the earth to be a plain." In this sweeping ban upon the ancients, however, Sir James must not include the ancient Irish, whose hereditary doctrine upon the subject it is evident that Fergil did here only give utterance to ; and dearly did he suffer for it ; his life, like that of Galileo, having been forfeited thereby, at the...
Seite 102 - Ireland ? that whole nation, almoft defpifing the dangers of the fea, refort to our coafts with a numerous train of philofophers, of whom the moft celebrated quitting their native foil account themfelves happy under your protection , as fervants of the wife Solomon.