"Hibernia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would leave, unbrib'd, Hibernia's land, Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand? There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all, whom hunger spares, ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... be reckoned the supposed influence of Irish earth, in curing the poison of adders, or other venomous reptiles.—This virtue is extended by popular credulity to the natives, and even to the animals, of Hibernia. A gentleman, bitten by some reptile, so as to occasion a great swelling, seriously assured the editor, that he ascribed his cure to putting the affected finger into the mouth ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... waxed hot upon the subject. The Musalimah declared that they would never yield their rights, a certain ancestor, 'Asaylah, having first pitched tent upon the Rughamat Makna, or white "horse" of Makna. A furious quarrel ensued, and, as usual in Arabia as in Hibernia, both claimants prepared to ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... Sir James to be second in command. To make him eligible for this, he was promoted to the rank of Vice-admiral; and on the 7th of January he received orders to hoist his flag, blue at the fore, on board the San Josef, of 112 guns. As the noble Earl was unable from ill health to keep the sea in the Hibernia, his flag-ship, the whole responsibility fell ...
— Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II • Sir John Ross
... have tails smooth and hairy and from two to ten inches long. Hubsch of Constantinople remarks that both men and women of this tribe have tails. Carpus, or Berengarius Carpensis, as he is called, in one of his Commentaries said that there were some people in Hibernia with long tails, but whether they were fleshy or cartilaginous could not be known, as the people could not be approached. Certain supposed tailed races which have been described by sea-captains and voyagers are really only examples of people who wear artificial appendages about the waists, ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... never knew, including Hibernia, have come under the eagles, nay the vultures, of imperial Britain. But the lion's ...
— The Crime Against Europe - A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 • Roger Casement
... the past three months, and have received advice from every man, woman, and child in the country, including the German-American Union, the Independent Union, the Friends of Peace, the Sons of Hibernia, and all the other troglodytes that live; and yet, you alone have not thought me of sufficient consequence to advise me as to what to do with the Kaiser or Carranza or Hoke Smith ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... Nero tyrant, petty king, Who heretofore did reign In famed Hibernia, I will sing, And in a ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... est vicus celeberrimus Bristow nomine, in quo est nauium portus ab Hibernia & Norwegia & cteris transmarinis terris venientium receptaculum, ne scilicet genitalibus diuitijs tam fortunata ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt
... August, 1843, in the steamer "Hibernia." What a joy to return home! We landed in Boston. The railroad across Massachusetts had been completed during our absence, and brought us to Sheffield in six or seven hours; it had always been a weary journey before, of three days by coach, or a week with our own horse. A few days' ...
— Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. - Edited by his Daughter • Orville Dewey |
