The History of the Town of Belfast [by G. Benn].

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Сторінка 50 - It is well known that a greater portion of the lands in Ireland, are owned by a comparatively small number of proprietors, who rent them to the farming classes on long leases. In 1771, the leases on an estate in the county of Antrim — the property of the Marquis of Donegal — having expired, the rents were so largely advanced, that many of the tenants could not comply with the demands, and were deprived of the farms they had occupied. This aroused a spirit of resentment to the oppression of the...
Сторінка 10 - Belfast as the best and most convenient place in Ulster for the establishment of shipwrights. He was likewise influenced in this choice by the extensive forests which grew in the neighbourhood, a circumstance which is sufficiently proved by an order of lord deputy Grey, in 1581, to permit the mayor and inhabitants of Carrickfergus to convey timber from 10
Сторінка 57 - INTOLERANCE annihilated in this land — so dear to as, its Honour, that we wish an eternal stop to the traffic of public liberty, which is bought by one, and sold to another — so dear to us, its Freedom, that we wish for nothing so much as a REAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE NATIONAL WILL, the surest guide and guardian of national happiness.
Сторінка 57 - Much as MEN. It is good for human nature, that the grass grows where the Bastile stood. We do rejoice at an event, which seemed the breaking of a charm, that held universal France in a Bastile of civil and religious bondage.
Сторінка 57 - In another place the following paragraph occurs : " We, too, have a country and we hold it very dear; so dear to us its interest, that we wish all civil and religious intolerance annihilated in this land ; so dear to us its honour, that we wish an eternal stop to the traffic of public liberty, which is bought by one and sold to another; so dear to us its, freedom, that we wish for nothing so much as a real representative of the national will, the surest guide and guardian of national happiness.
Сторінка 46 - ... vindication of their subsequent public or political proceedings from that time to the latter end of Queen Anne's reign. The vicar of the parish of Belfast ( Dr. Tisdall), appears also to have exercised his pen on the occasion, but with a very different intention. He published a treatise, entitled " A Seasonable Enquiry into that Most Dangerous Political Principle of the Kirk in Power. By W. Tisdall, DD Dublin, printed 1713.
Сторінка 256 - ... the other, and upwards of a foot in thickness at the edges, but in the centre considerably more. This cromlech is either very erroneously described by Mr. Harris, or its appearance has greatly altered since the year 1744. We are informed in the History of the County Down, that two ranges of pillars...
Сторінка 58 - Our Gallic brethren were born July 14, 1789 ; alas ! we are still in embryo." On the reverse, " Superstitious jealousy the cause of the Irish Bastile: let us
Сторінка 30 - ... explanation is given as to the occasion, date, or manner of their presentation. They contain a keen and no very covert attack on the Rump Parliament, and certainly do infinite honour to the poet laureat of the town for smoothness of versification and originality of invention :— Advants George Monck and Monck St.
Сторінка 4 - ... the counties of Down and Antrim, was fordable at this place, which ford, it is probable, formed, at least for a Considerable distance, the principal means of communication between -the inhabitants of the opposite sides of the river, and was in general use for this purpose before the erection of the long bridge in 1682. THE utmost obscurity and perplexity, however, attend the derivation of the name. In " A Map of Ireland previous to the thirteenth century...

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