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Statistical Survey of the County of Cork; With Observations on the Means of Improvement Drawn Up for the Consideration, and by the Direction of the Dublin Society

Statistical Survey of the County of Cork; With Observations on the Means of Improvement Drawn Up for the Consideration, and by the Direction of the Dublin Society


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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1810. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAP. IV. Antiquities, previous and subsequent to Christianity. The antiquities of this county furnish the strongest internal evidence of the rude state of its early inhabitants. The first result of social union is fixed and commodious habitation. As wealth and luxury increase, buildings advance from convenience and comfort to beauty and magnificence.-- Had any improved state of political society ever existed in a country possessing such abundant and durable materials for building, some vestiges of its works would still be discoverable. But of such establishments no distinct traces are to be found, even in the accounts of those, who would have us believe that such a state of civilization did actually exist. Nor can their disappearance be reasonably imputed to the destructive hand of time, when so many small and simple monuments of remoter ages are yet yet remaining. The tranquil state of this country, never known to have been disturbed by inundations, earthquakes, or volcanoes, forbids us to account for their destruction by natural means. The devastation and injuries, which the inhabitants suffered from foreign invaders, is too recent to have left us without some knowledge of the places destroyed. Julius Caesar was the first successful invader of British tranquillity, and Ireland continued unmolested For a long time after. The seaports of this county too were known and occasionally resorted to in the time of Tacitus, from which circumstance it is reasonable to suppose, that this was one of the most improved parts of the island. Here then, had any respectable establishment once existed, we might expect to find some traces of it. But as all that remain are vestiges only of the rude and barbarous, we are induced to conclude that before the Christian aera, and for a...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151235770
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 172
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151235776
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 318 gr


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