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Article THURLOGH, THE MILESIAN. ← Page 5 of 17 →
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
tility which a long domesticated sojourn amongst a people , who at the time were considered as almost the natural enemies of England , could not fail to impart It was to obviate these inconveniencies that our government , at last , began to relax their severity ; and , wishing to reconcile rather than to estrange , built the college of Maynooth , within twelve miles distance of
the city of Dublin , for the education of persons intended for the mission of the Catholic priesthood in Ireland . This , however , did not exist in the unpropitious days of the good O' Sullivan . To Paris , therefore , he repaired ; and , after a diligent application to theological researches , and a brilliant career of literary display , he returned , with thankfulness , to the Green Island ofhis nativity , —the meek proclaimer of the truths which he was now ordained to preach , and exhibiting in his person , though at different periods of his existence , the characters of soldier , husband , father , and priest .
CHAPTER II . Such is an outline of the leading traits of an individual , which I have deemed it necessary to premise here , for more reasons than one first , because of the singularity of the history itself ; secondly , because of its connection with my future subject , and thirdly because that , with appropriate alterations , it will serve as an index to the singular state of the times ,
and more especially amongst that class of then persecuted religionists to which the party in question had belonged . I feel , however , that were I any longer to spin it out , it may divert attention from my principal hero . To him , therefore , I shall now direct my most obsequious regards , while I introduce his lineage to the notice of the reader . Thurlogh , the hero of our narrative , was born sometime in the year
18— , in a remote barony in the south of Ireland . He was the third of six brothers , whose father once possessed a very considerable independence , and bore a name conspicuous upon the pages of his country ' s history , amongst the first and the bravest of its feudal sovereigns . His mother's origin , not less ennobled , was more remarkable , in that she had been the last and only surviving representative of one of those deposed families belonging to the period alluded to , ivhose descendants are still recognised as
legitimate princes , and still receive from an ardent and devoted peasantry all the reverence and homage of their former consequence . Circumscribed in their means , Thurlogh's family lived in dignified seclusion . Their abode lay near the sea-shore . In front was the vast interminable ocean rolling its foamy and majestic billows in ceaseless and awful grandeur . On either side a chain of uninterrupted mountains , and of immense height . In the rear , was a lawn of luxuriant verdure , beautifully intersected with rivulets and walks , which at once harmonised the soul and enriched the landscape beyond any thing to be expected in so sequestered a quarter .
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Thurlogh, The Milesian.
tility which a long domesticated sojourn amongst a people , who at the time were considered as almost the natural enemies of England , could not fail to impart It was to obviate these inconveniencies that our government , at last , began to relax their severity ; and , wishing to reconcile rather than to estrange , built the college of Maynooth , within twelve miles distance of
the city of Dublin , for the education of persons intended for the mission of the Catholic priesthood in Ireland . This , however , did not exist in the unpropitious days of the good O' Sullivan . To Paris , therefore , he repaired ; and , after a diligent application to theological researches , and a brilliant career of literary display , he returned , with thankfulness , to the Green Island ofhis nativity , —the meek proclaimer of the truths which he was now ordained to preach , and exhibiting in his person , though at different periods of his existence , the characters of soldier , husband , father , and priest .
CHAPTER II . Such is an outline of the leading traits of an individual , which I have deemed it necessary to premise here , for more reasons than one first , because of the singularity of the history itself ; secondly , because of its connection with my future subject , and thirdly because that , with appropriate alterations , it will serve as an index to the singular state of the times ,
and more especially amongst that class of then persecuted religionists to which the party in question had belonged . I feel , however , that were I any longer to spin it out , it may divert attention from my principal hero . To him , therefore , I shall now direct my most obsequious regards , while I introduce his lineage to the notice of the reader . Thurlogh , the hero of our narrative , was born sometime in the year
18— , in a remote barony in the south of Ireland . He was the third of six brothers , whose father once possessed a very considerable independence , and bore a name conspicuous upon the pages of his country ' s history , amongst the first and the bravest of its feudal sovereigns . His mother's origin , not less ennobled , was more remarkable , in that she had been the last and only surviving representative of one of those deposed families belonging to the period alluded to , ivhose descendants are still recognised as
legitimate princes , and still receive from an ardent and devoted peasantry all the reverence and homage of their former consequence . Circumscribed in their means , Thurlogh's family lived in dignified seclusion . Their abode lay near the sea-shore . In front was the vast interminable ocean rolling its foamy and majestic billows in ceaseless and awful grandeur . On either side a chain of uninterrupted mountains , and of immense height . In the rear , was a lawn of luxuriant verdure , beautifully intersected with rivulets and walks , which at once harmonised the soul and enriched the landscape beyond any thing to be expected in so sequestered a quarter .