The Gaels gave their language and their organisation to the country, while many customs and traditions of the older race lingered on and penetrated the new people.
Slowly and with sorrow the Irish in the course of sixty years abandoned their traditional customs and adopted the Roman Easter.
When she asked for any deviation from the English system, she was told that she must bow to the established laws and customs of Great Britain.
As old customs linger longest in places like this, I hope she and you will not think it quite extravagant to send a single sonnet on the occasion.
My mother was the daughter of Samuel Charters, Solicitor of the Customs for Scotland, and his wife Christian Murray, of Kynynmont, whose eldest sister married the great grandfather of the present Earl of Minto.
My mother had described the curious horse-races which are held at Siena every three years, and other mediæval customs still prevalent.
There are many parts of the book which will please the general reader from the graphic description of the manners and customs of the time, as well as the narrative of his intercourse with many of the eminent men of his day.
The manners and customs of the people who inhabited this pretty spot at that time were exceedingly primitive.
This chain of ideas may be broken into more or fewer links, or divided in different parts of it, by the customs of different people.
When this pleasurable sensation rises into a painful one, and the customs of society will not permit us to laugh aloud, some other violent voluntary exertion is used instead of it to alleviate the pain.
It respected Roman laws and customswhen it seized on Roman lands.
The Tell is a region vastly different in manners and customs from either the desert or the Algerian littoral.
The picturesque is everywhere in Algeria and Tunisia, and the incoming manners and customs of outre-mer only make the contrast more remarkable.
Then Achior seeing the virtue of the God of Israel, left his old heathen's customs and believed in God, and put himself to the people of Israel, and all the succession of his kindred unto this day.
And in particular, I heard him once myself affirm, that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity were diametrically opposite, and could not be reconciled.
It seemed strange to them that Tekakwitha took so little pleasure in the festive customs of the Mohawks.
He was stern, unbending, fierce; and like many another chief reared in the Long House, was proudly tenacious of the customs of his race.
His Report for 1850 gives many details concerning the domestic customs and industries of the Iroquois.
Customs and tolls were paid here in the time of King Ethelred the Second, that is, in the year 979.
Until, for instance, an understanding of the manners and customs in this respect has been attained, the conveyance of the luggage to the hotel is a ruinous expense.
Since the customs office wouldn't let you off Earth with such a thing, and the customs people here wouldn't have let you bring one onto Mars, they know it must be the real McCoy.
However, knowing that just having it carried a lot of weight, I gave them the order to pick you up as soon as they approached me at the customs booth.
Many modern inventions are still unknown to them, and we should think their customs very primitive, but on this account they are perhaps even more picturesque.
It is now a quarter of a century since the painter's life work ended, and in these years some few changes have been made in the customs and costumes which Millet's pictures represented.
The customs of peasants in France differ in the various provinces just as do ours in the various states.
The only two other articles which come under this description are the stamp-duty on gold and silver plate, and the customs on glass plates.
It is virtually one great state, having the same basis of general law, with some diversity of provincial customs and local establishments.
The letters of Adelaide de Savoie, Duchesse de Bourgogne and dauphine, are of little value, as the reader will see, if judged historically, or as a document on the manners and customs of a period.
But at this distance of time we can hear all without scruple, and, while doing homage to a person who had the gift of charm, we may dare to look on manners and customs as they were.
The late king was so attached to the old customsof the royal family that he would not have allowed any of them to be changed for all the world.
In 1845, he became a clerk in the Long-room of the Customs at Greenock, an appointment which he retained till nigh the period of his death.
My battered and broken trunk, which, at the hands of the English customs officials had suffered much, had now to be repaired and put to a good long test.
Our landing at Skagway under the towering mountains upon beautiful Lynn Canal was more uneventful than our experience in the Customs House at that place, for we were about to cross the line into Canadian territory.
To-day, when many such rules are as obsolete as the tiny pages themselves, this chapter affords many glimpses of the customs and etiquette of the old-fashioned child's life.
These remarks conclude with this prosaic statement: "Hundreds of sensible people have fell into these customs from example; and, when they would have left them off, found it a very great difficulty.
As the lieutenant could speak the Cheyenne tongue fluently, and was familiar with the customs and habits of the tribe, he received a hearing that was respectful.
She is familiar with the customs of the tribe, knows their traditions, and, in fact, may be considered an authority on things relating to the history of that nation.
However, since he was there and I was close by, I thought it a good opportunity to satisfy my curiosity about their customs of burial.
There was one very noticeable change in the habits, manners, customs and character of the men who had acquired the title of Captain, Major, or Colonel, and that was shown in their dress.
He also took along California Joe, as he was a good scout and was familiar with all the customs and habits of the Indians, having lived and dealt with them all the way from California to Texas.
Sometimes several families went together and had a big time talking over Indian customs and the ways of the white man.
The cost of collecting the customs revenues for the last fiscal year was 2.
Within these limitations a certain reduction should be made in our customs revenue.
The proposition with which we have to deal is the reduction of the revenue received by the Government, and indirectly paid by the people, from customs duties.
Their inclination, long fostered by a defective system of control, is to cling to the habits and customs of their ancestors and struggle with persistence against the change of life which their altered circumstances press upon them.
Following the treaty of 1883 with Mexico, which rested on the basis of a reciprocal exemption fromcustoms duties, other similar treaties were initiated by my predecessor.
Hence the necessity for a supplemental agency or system directed to the end of promoting the general and more rapid transition of the tribes from habits and customs of barbarism to the ways of civilization.
But those customs disappeared at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and have not since been in use except in Spain.
Such is the prestige that hovers about the name of the Virgin in the national customs of Spain.
His knowledge of his people and their customs told him, however, that in all probability the sentry was asleep.
Glossary From conversations with Lord Greystoke and from his notes, there have been gleaned a number of interesting items relative to the language and customs of the inhabitants of Pal-ul-don that are not brought out in the story.
It would not be wise to follow the plan of the Athenian orator; he adapted his training to his personal circumstances, and the customs of the country.
But I am satisfied that it is occasionally made to bear a weight of reproach that ought to be laid upon the customs and habits of domestic, social and general life.
There the child is instructed in the art of dress, in manners and language, in the rude customs of agriculture, the chase, and war.
Measure your desires by your fortune and condition, not your fortunes by your desires: be governed by your needs, not by your fancy; by nature, not by evil customs and ambitious principles.
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