Analytical Ethnology: The Mixed Tribes in Great Britain and Ireland Examined, and the Political, Physical, and Metaphysical Blunderings on the Celt and Saxon Exposed |
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ancient Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Bahadoor beautiful body Bog of Allen bone brave Britain Britons called castle Catholic Celt Celt and Saxon Celtic race Celtic woman century character characteristics Christianity Church colour Columbanus Columbkille complexion Connemara County Galway court cretinism Daireen Danes dark Dublin effectual elastic England English Englishman equal Erin exhibit facts fair father feel Fithir foot France German Grana habits hair hand head heart Highland Ireland Irish islands Isle King labour land Leinster ligament Limerick look Lord mental Milesian mind mixed race moral Munster nation nature Norman observation origin passed Phrenology physical population present Prince of Leinster Protestant Protestantism Queen religion remarks Roman round Saxon Scandinavian schools of design Scota Scotch Scotland shores sister skull social soul specimens spirit stand Tara thought tion tower trace tribes truth Uisles Wales wild
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Page 111 - Look on its broken arch, its ruin'd wall, Its chambers desolate, and portals foul: Yes, this was once Ambition's airy hall, The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul...
Page 194 - Thus, pupils of the most different natures were keenly stimulated ; none felt that he was left out, or that, because he was not endowed with large powers of mind, there was no sphere open to him in the honourable pursuit of usefulness. This wonderful power of making all his pupils respect themselves, and of awakening in them a consciousness of the duties that God had assigned to them personally, and of the consequent reward each should have of his labours, was one of Arnold's most characteristic...
Page 121 - ... indeed is Scandinavian, though he must borrow his countess from the Norman), chancellor, treasurer, palace, castle...
Page 154 - ... until these very few years, the system had been that of debarring Ireland from the enjoyment and use of her own resources; to make the kingdom completely subservient to the interests and opulence of this country, without suffering her to abate in the bounties of nature, in the industry of her citizens, or making them contribute to the general interests and strength of the empire.
Page 35 - ... ancestors which every man has, within no very great number of degrees ; and so many different bloods h is a man said to contain in his veins, as he hath lineal ancestors. Of these he hath two in the first ascending degree, his own parents; he hath four in the second, the parents of his father and the parents of his mother ; he hath eight in the third, the parents of his two grandfathers...
Page 194 - ... up towards him who had taught him thus to value life and his own self, and his work and mission in this world. All this was founded on the breadth and comprehensiveness of Arnold's character, as well as its striking truth and reality ; on the unfeigned regard he had for work of all kinds, and the sense he had of its value both for the complex aggregate of society and the growth and perfection of the individual.
Page 153 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...
Page 193 - Every pupil was made to feel that there was a work for him to do — that his happiness as well as his duty lay in doing that work well. Hence an indescribable zest was communicated to a young man's feeling about life ; a strange joy came over him on discovering that he had the means of being useful, and thus of being happy ; and a deep respect and ardent attachment sprang up towards him who had taught him thus to value life and his own self, and his work and mission in this world.
Page 221 - I dismiss you," the union was dissolved. It is said that during the year, Grana took good care to put her own creatures into garrison in all M'William's eastward castles that were valuable to her, and then, one fine day, as the Lord of Mayo was coming up to the castle of Corrig-a-Howly, near Newport, Grana spied him,, and cried out the dissolving words —
Page 46 - ... Individuals having these characters occur in the lower grounds of Yorkshire, as in the valley of the Aire below Leeds, in the vale of the Derwent, and the level regions south of York. They are still more frequent in Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire, and may be said to abound amidst the true Anglians of Norfolk and Suffolk. The physical characters here traced cannot be, as Dr Prichard conjectures in a parallel case in Germany, the effect of some centuries of residence in towns, for they are...