| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1830 - 414 pages
...The Irish nation, though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet by it enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of its literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 488 pages
...though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet enabled by it to boast that they possess genuine history several...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame," For our own part, we look forward to the publication of these documents as the only source whence... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 486 pages
...yet enabled by it to boost that they possess genuine history several centuries more undent than aiiy other European nation possesses in its present spoken...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame." For our own part, we look forward to the publication of these documents as the only source whence... | |
| Great Britain - 1831 - 484 pages
...though they are robbed of maiiy of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet enabled by it to boast that they possess genuine history several...centuries more ancient than any other European nation po^essea in its present spoken language ; they have exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...The Irish nation, though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet by it enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of its literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich, George Stillman Hilliard - English literature - 1841 - 326 pages
...The Irish nation, though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet by it enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1841 - 740 pages
...of Henry Plantagenet, possess the fullest evidences of exactness. The Irish nation are thus entitled to boast that they possess genuine history several...nation possesses in its present spoken language." And, viewing them in this aspect, — a colony, as it were, of ancient Celts transferred from antiquity... | |
| Thomas Moore - Ireland - 1843 - 558 pages
...The Irish nation, though they are robbed of many of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet by it enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical famf. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of its literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
| Ireland - 1851 - 782 pages
...exactness. The Irish nation, though they are robbed of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet, by it, enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of its literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
| 1857 - 626 pages
...exactness. The Irish nation, though they are robbed of their legends by this authentic publication, are yet, by it, enabled to boast that they possess genuine...exchanged their legendary antiquity for historical fame. Indeed, no other nation possesses any monument of its literature, in its present spoken language,... | |
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