Published March 15, 1803 by T.Egerton, Charing Crofs.

AN

HISTORICAL REVIEW

OF THE

STATE OF IRELAND,

FROM THE

INVASION OF THAT COUNTRY UNDER HENRY II.

TO ITS

UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN

On the 1st of January, 1801.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By FRANCIS PLOWDEN, Esq.

VOL. I.

Pauci prudentia, honesta ab deterioribus, utilia ab noxiis discernunt: plures aliorum eventis docentur.
TAC. 4. Ann. 33.

Few are qualified by their own reflection to mark the boundaries between vice and virtue. To se-
parate the useful from that which leads to destruction is not the talent of every man.
others is the school of wisdom.
The example of
MURPHY'S Trans. Vol. i. p. 273.

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