The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 4, Part 2W. B. Kelly, 1854 - Ireland |
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They retained but one faint source of hope as the means of escape from the wretchedness they endured : it was a hope , however , that even failed to keep alive despair , —that hope was death . Sir Francis Forbes , one of the witnesses ...
They retained but one faint source of hope as the means of escape from the wretchedness they endured : it was a hope , however , that even failed to keep alive despair , —that hope was death . Sir Francis Forbes , one of the witnesses ...
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... if he so desired it ; but it would afford him a passage to another port , if no family ties bound him to a particular spot . And there he stood , without a friend but God ; no hope for himself , his wife , his little ...
... if he so desired it ; but it would afford him a passage to another port , if no family ties bound him to a particular spot . And there he stood , without a friend but God ; no hope for himself , his wife , his little ...
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Allow me , then , to express an earnest hope that the recent act , properly entitled • An Act for the Better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders , ' may receive due consideration at the present sessions , with a view to providing ...
Allow me , then , to express an earnest hope that the recent act , properly entitled • An Act for the Better Care and Reformation of Youthful Offenders , ' may receive due consideration at the present sessions , with a view to providing ...
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