The History of Ireland, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The History of Ireland, Vol. 1 of 2

There is but one History of Ireland deserving the name - that of Mr. Leland. But it is a heavy work, overlaid with the rubbish of barba rous and unimportant details, and disfigured with a degree of prejudice and unfairness still more objectionable. Leland writes like a gentleman and a scholar; but he had no clear views of his subject; and he was unable, or unwilling to disengage himself from the prejudices of the period in which he lived. It is to be feared that the latter was very much the case; for throughout his misrepresentations and glosses, we are here and there struck with glimpses of a conscience ill at ease. He is not, however, often chargeable with misstating facts, but he discolours them with observations strangely at variance with the natural deductions from the matter to which they relate.

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