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Henry O'Brien was the son of an aristocratic family from the west of Ireland.
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The round towers of Ireland, or, The mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism; for the first time unveiled
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...their predicamental line. Those conventional terms which expediency alone has invented, are, to say the least, arbitrary; and as all men have an equal right to form a specification of their subject-matter, I shall, without disconcerting the order of the above division, endeavour, only, to rescue the points to which I refer, from immersion in the first class; or--if allowed the latitude of parliamentary elocution--to take them out from the condemnation of Schedule A. To begin, then, with the following text, viz., " The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose f.' What do you understand by the expression "sons of God?" His peculiar people, you reply; such, for instance, as called upon his narne.; or, perhaps, Seth's descendants in opposition to those of Cain, the unrighteous. Turn, sir, to the beginning of the first and second chapters of Job, and read what you are there informed of. "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.' And "Again, there was a day, when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord." Well, what is your answer now? or will it not be different from what it was before? Can you seriously imagine that it was any race of ordinary human beings that was thus denominated? And are you not compelled to associate the idea, with some one of the other superior productions, of omnipotent agency? That is, "above reason." t Genesis vi. 2. $ Ibid., iv. 26. Job xxxviii. I will make you, sir, if you have candour in your constitution, acknowledge the fact. Listen--" Where wast thou...
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Title: The Round Towers of Ireland; or, the mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism, for the first time unveiled. Prize Essay of the Royal Irish Academy, enlarged, and embellished with ... illustrations. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library O'Brien, Henry; 1834. 8º. 601.g.23.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...of effecting a landing, or, more wisely, receded from it as impregnable, I am thrown back, as it were, upon myself, and impeded by the comparison of my own littleness. But if " God has often chosen the small things of the earth to confound the great;" and if success in past undertakings be any guarantee against the ill-siveness of inward promise; if the roads be all chalked, the posts lighted, and the sentinels faithful, why, then, allow the influence of petty fears to mar, at all events, the project of an ennobling enterprise? In that cherished volume, whence our first lessons upon religion have been deduced, and which, as embodying the principles of our happiness here, and our hopes hereafter, has been honoured with the preeminent and distinctive appellation of the Bible, or Book, there occur numerous phrases of mysterious import, but pregnant significancy, which pious men, unable to solve, have contented themselves with classifying as under the head of " above reason"--"contrary," and " according to," being the two other constituents of their predicamental line. Those conventional terms which expediency alone has invented, are, to say the least, arbitrary; and as all men have an equal right to form a specification of their subject-matter, I shall, without disconcerting the order of the above division, endeavour, only, to rescue the points to which I refer, from immersion in the first class; or--if allowed the latitude of parliamentary elocution--to take them out from the condemnation of Schedule A. To begin, then, with the following text, viz., " The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose f.' What do you understand by the expression "sons...
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Henry O'Brien
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Education
At an early age he studied Latin and Greek and took an interest in ancient Greek literature.
Career
Later he obtained a degree in classics at Dublin University. O'Brien later translated Phœnician Ireland, by Joaquín Lorenzo Villanueva in English but soon after died, at only 27 years of age by "bad health, aggravated by his studious habits", he was later buried in Hanwell, Oxfordshire. Henry O'Brien first proposed that the Irish round towers were created by a pre-Christian phallic cult among the Tuatha Dé Danann who he connected to the daughters of Danaus.
His theory when first published caused a lot of controversy at the time, as well as sparking criticism. Today, the mainstream consensus among archaeologists and historians is that the Irish round towers were created during the early Medieval period, not pre-Christian period which O'Brien proposed.
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The Round Towers of Ireland; or, the mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism, for the first time unveiled. Prize Essay of the Royal Irish ... and embellished, with illustrations.
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The round towers of Ireland, or, The mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism; for the first time unveiled
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The round towers of Ireland; or, The mysteries of freemasonry, of sabaism, and of Budhism, for the first time revealed. Prize essay
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- ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND; OR THE MYSTERIES OF FREEMASONRY, OF SABAISM, AND OF BUDHISM, FOR THE FIRST TIME UNVEILED. 'PRIZE ESSAY' OF THE ROAYL IRISH AC
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The Round Towers of Ireland; or, the mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism, and of Budhism, for the first time unveiled. Prize Essay of the Royal Irish ... and embellished, with illustrations.
