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Memoirs of Captain Rock, the Celebrated Irish Chieftain, Written by Himself [Ed., Or Rather Written, by S.E.].
Memoirs of Captain Rock the Celebrated Irish Chieftain Written by Himself - Ed., Or Rather Written, by S.E. Author:Thomas Moore, Rock General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Justice of Ireland, with the greatest possible ease and comfort to himself. We may imagine how dull my ancestors must have found those times, when a beautiful young lady, (as Dr. Warner tells us) adorned with gems, and in a costly dress, having only a wand in her hand, and a rich gold ring at the top of it, could travel from one end of the kingdom to the other, without the least chance of robbery, or even abduction, on the way. So excellent was the police of Brian Boromhe, and, still better, so moral and well-behaved were his subjects ! The only thing that seems to have been out of order among the ancient Irish was their alphabet, in which the letter A had been unaccountably deposed from its supremacy to make way for B . Whether the Rocks had any hand in this revolutionary movement among the letters does not appear; but Hutcheson (in his It appears, however, from Mr. O'Halloran, that St. Patrick acted the part of General Monk to the alphabet, and that the restoration of A to its birthright is one of the chief achievements for which we are indebted to him. - 'Defence,« less