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Σελίδα viii
... Irish Peasantry . Manners of the Irish . Mines . CHAPTER XL .-- Peat Bogs . Shaking Bogs . Giant's Causey , or Causeway . Government of Ireland . Union . Conclusion 181 PARLEY'S TALES ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN . CHAPTER I. Parley begins viii ...
... Irish Peasantry . Manners of the Irish . Mines . CHAPTER XL .-- Peat Bogs . Shaking Bogs . Giant's Causey , or Causeway . Government of Ireland . Union . Conclusion 181 PARLEY'S TALES ABOUT GREAT BRITAIN . CHAPTER I. Parley begins viii ...
Σελίδα 3
... Irish , and a bee hive of a place it must be , if we may judge by the swarms of people that emigrate from it to America . Well , I am going to tell you of these several countries , and I doubt not that I shall be able to amuse you , in ...
... Irish , and a bee hive of a place it must be , if we may judge by the swarms of people that emigrate from it to America . Well , I am going to tell you of these several countries , and I doubt not that I shall be able to amuse you , in ...
Σελίδα 7
... Irish people , men , women , and children , who were going over to England to assist in gathering in the harvest . They were wretched looking creatures , ill clad , and apparently half starved . They really seemed less happy than the ...
... Irish people , men , women , and children , who were going over to England to assist in gathering in the harvest . They were wretched looking creatures , ill clad , and apparently half starved . They really seemed less happy than the ...
Σελίδα 85
... Irish , peers , chosen from among the rest by vote , have this privilege . You know that we have no peers in America . The House of Lords and Commons together form the Parliament . Any member of either house has the right of pro- posing ...
... Irish , peers , chosen from among the rest by vote , have this privilege . You know that we have no peers in America . The House of Lords and Commons together form the Parliament . Any member of either house has the right of pro- posing ...
Σελίδα 94
... Irish Society of London , the London Hibernian Society , and the Scripture Reader's Society , for Ireland , have done much for Irish people in teaching them to read , giving them bibles and good books , and preaching the gospel . Did ...
... Irish Society of London , the London Hibernian Society , and the Scripture Reader's Society , for Ireland , have done much for Irish people in teaching them to read , giving them bibles and good books , and preaching the gospel . Did ...
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Σελίδα 112 - I say, they will receive a terrible blow this parliament, and yet they shall not see who hurts them. This counsel is not to be contemned, because it may do you good, and can do you no harm : for the danger is past, as soon as you have burned the letter. And I hope God will give you the grace to make good use of it, unto whose holy protection I commend you*.
Σελίδα 40 - VII. one of the finest specimens of Gothic architecture in the world. It was...
Σελίδα 49 - Among these latter is a piece of cannon of the kind first invented ; formed of bars of iron hammered together, and bound with iron hoops : it has no carriage, but was moved by means of six rings, conveniently placed for that purpose. Horse Armoury. — This is a noble room, crowded with curiosities that will highly gratify the visitor.
Σελίδα 98 - These places occupy an area of from £ to 2 acres. The material used must have been brought from a great distance, as there is no stone in this country except soft sandstone, and very little of that. In 1863 the author assisted in exploring a mound 3 miles west of Tupelo, Miss. It was 8 feet high, 30 feet in diameter, and composed of white sand. It was situated on a ridge 400 feet west of a bluff, at the base of which is a spring.
Σελίδα 165 - ... add much to the picturesque effect. Below the Fall, the channel of the river is deep and rocky, and shelves rapidly down towards the lake ; the mountain sides are clothed with luxuriant woods of birch ; and the river, interrupted in its course by numerous masses of rock, is lashed into foam, and hurries impetuously forward for about a quarter of a mile.
Σελίδα 105 - No sooner do young persons, and many grown people, too, rise up in a morning, on the first day of April, than they begin to put some joke or other upon those around them, sending them on fruitless errands, or calling them to look at something, when there is nothing to look at. On Good Friday...
Σελίδα 148 - ... deposits of great depth, amounting in the aggregate to about two million five hundred thousand acres, the greater part of which acreage and the greater part of the course of the river lying in the western part of the State. The elevation of the bed of the river through the State of Kansas is from three thousand three hundred and fifty feet above the level of the sea at the Colorado line to one thousand feet above that level at the point where it enters Oklahoma. The rainfall in the drainage area...
Σελίδα 140 - NW tower is shown the chamber where queen Mary sat at supper, when Rizzio was dragged from her side and murdered ; and the private staircase by which Ruthven entered with the assassins, to perpetrate (lie savage deed.
Σελίδα 48 - ... various curiosities and antiquities at present contained within its walls, alike interesting to those at a distance, as also to those who may have an opportunity of visiting it. This venerable fortress stands on the northern bank of the Thames, at the. eastern extremity of the city. It consists of a large collection of fortified buildings, surrounded by a moat, or ditch,— containing several streets, and covering upwards of twelve acres of land. The most conspicuous part of this edifice is a...
Σελίδα 94 - Millions of young folks have been taught in them to remember their Creator in the days of their youth. I...