Why God Loves the IrishDevin-Adair Company, 1918 - 108 pages |
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... hundred years . Here , then , was a stored soul energy , a latent brilliancy of intellect , both await- ing a providential lifting of the weight of oppression . It came , as it had to come . The Irish who left Ireland soon proved that ...
... hundred years . Here , then , was a stored soul energy , a latent brilliancy of intellect , both await- ing a providential lifting of the weight of oppression . It came , as it had to come . The Irish who left Ireland soon proved that ...
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... hundred years , is- sued a stream of missionaries and teach- ers . It was upon his visit to this spot , many ... hundreds of English students crossed the Irish Sea to study in Irish colleges . By what perverse fate do we find other [ 6 ] ...
... hundred years , is- sued a stream of missionaries and teach- ers . It was upon his visit to this spot , many ... hundreds of English students crossed the Irish Sea to study in Irish colleges . By what perverse fate do we find other [ 6 ] ...
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... hundred thousand dol- lars out of the winsome song , and he pointed to a fine building in Paris as a monument to his profits . How many other melodies have sounded and sobbed through the Eo- lian harp of the Irish hills and valleys , to ...
... hundred thousand dol- lars out of the winsome song , and he pointed to a fine building in Paris as a monument to his profits . How many other melodies have sounded and sobbed through the Eo- lian harp of the Irish hills and valleys , to ...
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... hundred thousand people assembled and dis- persed with gravity and order ; and the student of social betterment , a like im- pressive subject in the crusade of Fa- ther Mathew , who in a few years pledged two millions of his countrymen ...
... hundred thousand people assembled and dis- persed with gravity and order ; and the student of social betterment , a like im- pressive subject in the crusade of Fa- ther Mathew , who in a few years pledged two millions of his countrymen ...
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... hundred years than all its missionary forces in three hundred years . They have built a thousand churches in the great South Sea [ 68 ] WHY GOD LOVES THE IRISH.
... hundred years than all its missionary forces in three hundred years . They have built a thousand churches in the great South Sea [ 68 ] WHY GOD LOVES THE IRISH.
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Page 6 - Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page iii - But here the main skill and groundwork will be to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God and famous to all ages.
Page 44 - May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if ever I prove false to those teachings.
Page xix - And burn'd thro' long ages of darkness and storm, Is the heart that sorrows have frown'd on in vain, Whose spirit outlives them, unfading and warm. Erin, oh Erin, thus bright thro' the tears Of a long night of bondage thy spirit appears. The nations have fallen, and thou still art young, Thy sun is but rising, when others are set : And tho' slavery's cloud o'er thy morning hath hung, The full noon of freedom shall beam round thee yet.
Page 18 - I have before said, the moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots.
Page 84 - Are Erin's sons so good or so cold, As not to be tempted by woman or gold ? " " Sir Knight ! I feel not the least alarm, No son of Erin will offer me harm — For though they love women and golden store, Sir Knight ! they love honour and virtue more ! " On she went, and her maiden smile In safety lighted her round the Green Isle.
Page 65 - Ildefonso, in the armies of Frederic and in the armies of Maria Theresa. One exile became a Marshal of France. ' Another became Prime Minister of Spain.
Page 75 - Walton's guns are the best evidence what manner of men they were who pressed on to death with the dauntlessness of a race which has. gained glory on a thousand battle-fields, and never more richly deserved it than at the foot of Marye's Heights on the 13th day of December, 1862.
Page 21 - If I were a sculptor, I would 'chisel from the marble my ideal of a hero. I would make it the figure of an Irishman sacrificing his hopes and his life on the altar of his country, and I would carve on its pedestal the name of Robert Emmet. If I were a painter, I would make the canvas eloquent with the deeds of the bravest people who ever lived, whose proud spirit no power can ever conquer and whose loyalty and devotion to the hopes of free government no tyrant can ever crush. And I would write under...
Page 54 - HAIL to our Celtic brethren wherever they may be, In the far woods of Oregon, or o'er the Atlantic sea ; Whether they guard the banner of St. George, in Indian vales, Or spread beneath the nightless North experimental sails — One in name, and in fame, Are the sea-divided Gaels.