An Analytical Exposition of the Absurdity and Iniquity of the Oaths, When Taken by Protestants, or Any Other Sects of Christians, That the Sacrifice ... Are Superstitious, Idolatrous, and Damnable - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829. Excerpt: ... NOTES. Note », page 0. "The Hebrews in the land of Egypt were never more dolefully per"secuted than we are, sir," was the observation of one of the Clare peasantry, in my hearing, to O'Gorman Mahon. "The word government, in its proper signification, signifies punishment," was the characteristic opinion of a Turkish vizier. Unlet sty asset dimek dir. This theory of the Turk is quite in accordance with the spirit of the government of Ireland. The Greeks have been called by Lord Byron a kind of Eastern Irish Papists, and by a kind of logical conversion) we may call the Irish Papists a kind of western Greeks. It may be truly said of the Irish Catholics, "they sit in darkness "and the shadow of death, being bound with affliction and with "iron.' Those generous peasants, the forty-shilling freeholders, are now to have wrenched from them their elective franchise, which they were exercising so nobly. They are treated like Aristides, because they are called " the just." O'Gorman Mahon is the head of the union of the Milesian families of the Mahons, descended from the Prince of that name of the race of Brien Boirhume, and the O'Gormans, hereditary standard-bearers to the kings of Leinster. Both families were early visited by the heaviest vengeance of the English, against whom they were, upon every opportunity, found in arms. The late celebrated Irish antiquarian, the Chevalier O'Gorman, was the head of the once-powerful sept of the O'Gormans, and the patriotic Secretary to the Catholics of Ireland is a member of the first branch of that family. Note , page 12. The stone at the end of Thomond-bridge, on which the treaty of Limerick was signed, is called, by the people, ' the Devil's Pillow-" Note c, page 13. Vide this section in Locke, with his example, viz. an...
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