There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful, neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre, as famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and the like, so naturally, and with such facility and courage that they do. The Prince of... The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland - Page 57by John Patrick Prendergast - 1922 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Patrick Prendergast - Ireland - 1868 - 306 pages
...soldier of the age,J and * A-82, p. 891. t " There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre,...heat, cold, wet, travel, and the like, SO naturally, nnd with such facility and courage that they do. The Prince of Orange's Excellency uses often publiquely... | |
| John Patrick Prendergast - History - 1870 - 626 pages
...Lord Muskerry took 5000 to the King of 1 " There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful, neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre,...nation so resolute martial men as they, would they be ruly, and not too headstrong. And Sir John Norris was wont to ascribe this particular to that nation... | |
| James Godkin - Ireland - 1870 - 510 pages
...library, Dublin, dated 1615 : — ' There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful . . . neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre,...nation so resolute martial men as they, would they be ruly and not too headstrong. And Sir John Norris was wont to ascribe this particular to that nation... | |
| John Patrick Prendergast - Ireland - 1875 - 580 pages
...not a people more hardy, active, and painful, neither is there any will endure the miseries of warrej as famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and...Irish are souldiers the first day of their birth. Tho famous Henry IV., late King of France, said there would prove no nation so resolute martial men... | |
| Albert Augustus Gore - Great Britain - 1879 - 212 pages
...to say, " not a people more hardy, active, and who in their way will endure the miseries of warre or famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and the...like, so naturally and with such facility and courage as they do." When Charles I. resolved to prosecute the war both with France and Spain with vigour,... | |
| Edmund Ignatius Hogan - Anthropometry - 1899 - 186 pages
...people more hardy, active, and painful ; . . . neither is there any will endure the miseries of war, as famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and...uses often publiquely to deliver that the Irish are soldiers the first day of their birth. The famous Henry IV., late King of France, said there would... | |
| Éamon De Valera - Draft - 1918 - 60 pages
...Mr. Prendergast found the following : " There lives not a people more hardy, active and painful . . . neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre,...and with such facility and courage that they do." — Prendergast. " Cromwellian Settlement." 30 You cannot find one instance of perfidy, deceit, or... | |
| George O'Brien - Ireland - 1923 - 92 pages
...once they break off from sluggishness; neither is there any will endure the miseries of war, as are famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel and the like, so naturally and with that facility and courage that they do. The Prince of Orange, His Excellency used often publicly to... | |
| Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - 1923 - 92 pages
...once they break off from sluggishness; neither is there any will endure the miseries of war, as are famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel and the like, so naturally and with that facility and courage that they do. The Prince of Orange, His Excellency used often publicly to... | |
| Military art and science - 1878 - 528 pages
...to say, " not a people more hardy, active, and who in their way will endure the miseries of warre or famine, watching, heat, cold, wet, travel, and the like, so naturally and with such facihty and courage as they do." When Charles I. resolved to prosecute the war both with Prance and... | |
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