An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland

Henry Brooke

• 28 september 2025
• 9781465513014

Samenvatting:

Dedication. TO Matthew Mc. Namara, Of LIMERICK, Esq; Counsellor at LAW. Justly sensible, Sir, how sincerely You have the Character and Esteem of our Native Country at Heart, I take Leave to offer to Your Perusal, and commend to Your favourable Acceptance, the following Sheets. What gave them Rise, was my happening, some Time since, to have fallen into Company with two or three sprightly young Gentlemen, then just returned from their Continental Rambles,--who--altho' little burthened with the Religion, Laws, Learning, Policy, Customs, Habits, Manners, or Languages of any, or the several Countries they had scampered thro', affected, nevertheless, an high Contempt for this,--their Native