IF EVER ON THY EYELID STOOD THE TEAR THAT PITY HATH ENGENDER'D-DROP ONE HERE. COWPER. YET THAT POPULATION IS ENDOWED BY NATURE WITH GREAT MENTAL VIVACITY, AND A REMARKABLE APTITUDE FOR EVERY SPECIES OF INTELLECTUAL LABOUR. - THIERRY. Bayerische München HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE NATIVE IRISH AND THEIR DESCENDANTS; ILLUSTRATIVE OF THEIR PAST AND PRESENT STATE WITH REGARD TO Literature, Education, and Oral Enstruction. BY CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON. SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED. EDINBURGH: PUBLISHED BY OLIVER & BOYD, TWEEDDALE-COURT; AND SIMPKIN & MARSHALL, LONDON. 1830. In adversis etiam fida. "Learning, which dawned in the remotest east, has hitherto moved westward like the great luminary of day. It would be anticipating the ordinary course of human knowledge to suppose that Ireland has passed her zenith; it should rather encourage her sons, that she has not yet come to her meridian."-Camden's Hibernia by Gough. то THE DESCENDANTS OF THE ANCIENT NATIVE IRISH, AND TO ALL WHO BEFRIEND THEM, THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR |