Ireland Preserved: Or, The Siege of Londonderry and Battle of Aughrim

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Hardy & Walker, 1841 - 396 páginas
 

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Página 261 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD...
Página 261 - Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
Página 364 - The famine was so great, that many a man, woman, and child, died for want of food. I myself was so weak from hunger, that I fell under my musket one morning as I was going to the walls ; yet God gave me strength to continue all night at my post there, and enabled me to act the part of a soldier as if I had been as strong as ever I was; yet my face was blackened with hunger.
Página 367 - My ground and belief is, that there is but one God and one mediator between God and man, which is Jesus Christ; so that I accept none in heaven or in earth to be mediator between me and God, but only Jesus Christ : all others to be but as petitioners in receiving of grace, but none able to give influence of grace : and therefore will I bestow no part of my goods for that intent that any man...
Página 367 - I believe that my Redeemer liveth, and that in the last day I shall rise out of the earth, and in my flesh shall see my Saviour: this my hope is laid up in my bosom.
Página 82 - For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, But he that is in battle slain Will never rise to fight again.
Página 254 - And last, not least, from Donaghmore, George Walker came to guide us, To join our cause for evermore, Let weal or woe betide us ; When pressed with woe, in spirits low, We heard his words endearing ; When he said Go, we chased the foe, His voice our spirits cheering.
Página 151 - Horseflesh one shilling and eight pence per pound; a quarter of a dog four shillings and six pence; a dog's head two shillings and six pence ; a cat four shillings and six pence; a rat one shilling; a mouse six pence; a pound of tallow four shillings; a pound of salted hides one shilling; a quart of horse blood one shilling; a horse pudding six pence; a quart of meal, when found, one shilling.
Página 381 - Londonderry, one of the best bishopvies in Ireland ; that so he may receive the reward of that great service in the place where he did it. It is incredible how much every body is pleased with what the king hath done in this matter, and that it is no small joy to me to see that God directs him wisely.
Página 236 - When honour calls to Derry walls, The noble and the brave, Oh ! he that in the battle falls Must find a hero's grave. Then came the hot and doubtful fray, With many a mortal wound ; While thousands in wild war's array Stood marshalled all around. Each hill and plain was strewed with slain, The...

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