The History of the Town of Belfast, with an Accurate Account of Its Former and Present State: To which are Added a Statistical Survey of the Parish of Belfast and a Description of Some Remarkable Antiquities in Its Neighborhood

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A. Mackay Jr., 1823 - 298 стор.
 

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Сторінка 60 - June ; and in the report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords...
Сторінка 10 - Belfast," for the purpose of finishing' their church ; and it is remarkable that this order is addressed to the "Lord of the Woods," which was probably an office of considerable importance. The representations or the actions of Sir John Perrot, for promoting...
Сторінка 268 - Ac. belonging to the Bishop of Down and Connor, and all lands, &c. belonging to Abbies, &c. and the Fisher; of the river Lagan, and excepting all castles, lands, &c, within the territory of the Lower Claneboye, then or lately in the possession of Sir Arthur Chichester and his assigns, &c. ) to hold for ever at the rent of .£100, as of the castle of Carrickfergus, in free and common soccage, and not in capite ; nor in soccage in capile, nor by knight's senricc.
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 46 - Ireland, with a diffuse relation and 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 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 199 - The unhappy sufferer was standing in his way, and without requesting him to move, he struck him with less ceremony than an English country squire would a dog. But what astonished me even more than the deed, and which shows the difference between English and Irish feeling, was that not a murmur was heard, nor hand raised in disapprobation ; but the surrounding spectators dispersed, running different ways, like slaves terrified at the rod of their despot.
Сторінка 256 - Ring, one of the most stupendous and extraordinary monuments of antiquity in Ireland. It consists of an enormous circle, perfectly level, about five hundred and eighty feet in diameter, or nearly one-third of an Irish mile in circumference, comprising an area of eight plantation or nearly thirteen statute acres. This vast ring is enclosed by an earthen mound or outwork, upwards of eighty feet in breadth at the base; and though it is probable, in the lapse of nearly two thousand years, the height...
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 - Another of the flags on this occasion, carried by a number of persons from Carnmoney and Templepatrick, was impressed with the following strange and ominous words, " Our Gallic brother was born July 14, 1789. Alas! we are still in embryo.

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