 Irish hope exceeds the dimensions of that power, excels its authority, and renews with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indomitable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of...  The Glories of Ireland - Page 2edited by - 1914 - 357 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Augustin Thierry - 1847 - 494 pages
...indomitable pertinacy, this faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of their lost liberty, and of never despairing of a cause always defeated, always fatal to those who have dared to defend it, is perhaps the strangest and the noblest example ever given by any nation.... | |
 | Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry - 1847 - 492 pages
...indomitable pertinacy, this faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of their lost liberty, and of never despairing of a cause always defeated, always fatal to those who have dared to defend it, is perhaps the strangest and the noblest example ever given by any nation.... | |
 | 1915 - 314 pages
...the historian of the Norman Conquest, declares stands out as the conspicuous trait when he states: " This indomitable persistency, this faculty of preserving...strangest and noblest example ever given by any nation." More than a thousand years ago the Irish monks, looking out across the Atlantic from Irish headlands,... | |
 | 1916 - 570 pages
...the survival of the national spirit through it all. In the words of the French historian Thierry : "This indomitable persistency, this faculty of preserving...strangest and noblest example ever given by any nation." NOTES AND GLEANINGS The Boston Pilot, which we do not see regularly, on Feb. igth, printed an "official... | |
 | Warre Bradley Wells, N. Marlowe - 1916 - 300 pages
...with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indomitable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty, this surely is the noblest cause men ever strove for, ever lived for, ever died for. If this be the... | |
 | John Ranelagh - 1994 - 340 pages
...with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indominatable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty - this surely is the noblest cause ever man strove for, ever lived for, ever died for. No one else... | |
 | William Hughes Mulligan - 1997 - 280 pages
...with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indomitable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty, this surely is the noblest cause men ever strove for, ever lived for, ever died for. If this be the... | |
 | Stephen Regan - 2004 - 628 pages
...with each generation the claims of the last. The cause that begets this indomitable persistency, the faculty of preserving through centuries of misery the remembrance of lost liberty — this surely is the noblest cause ever man strove for, ever lived for, ever died for. If this be... | |
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