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" I do not mean to say that they are rigidly temperate, or that instances of excess, followed by the usual Irish consequences of broken heads, do not occasionally occur ; such could not be expected when their convivial temperament, and dangerous and laborious... "
Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy - Page 791
1893
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The Irish ecclesiastical record, Volume 7

Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 808 pages
...especially for details of measurement. 3 Stokes's Lit* of Petrie, page 49, 50. "I do not mean to say that they are rigidly temperate, or that instances of excess,...strangers polite and respectful ; but, at the same time, wholly free from servile adulation. They are communicative, but not too loquacious ; inquisitive after...
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Monasticon Hibernicum: Or, A History of the Abbeys, Priories, and ..., Volume 2

Mervyn Archdall - Ireland - 1876 - 382 pages
...poverty holds out less temptation to the one or opportunity for the other. t do not mean to say that they are rigidly temperate, or that instances of excess,...strangers polite and respectful; but, at the same time, wholly free from servile adulation. They are communicative, but not too loquacious ; inquisitive after...
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Occasional Sermons, Addresses, and Essays

George Conroy (bp. of Ardagh.) - Sermons, English - 1884 - 498 pages
...temperament, and dangerous and laborious occupations are remembered. They never swear, and they hare a high sense of decency and propriety, honour and...strangers polite and respectful ; but at the same time wholly free from servile adulation. They are communicative, but not too loquacious ; inquisitive after...
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Irish Literary and Musical Studies

Alfred Perceval Graves - English poetry - 1913 - 258 pages
...their convivial temperament and dangerous and laborious occupations are remembered. " But," he adds, " they never swear, and they have a high sense of decency...dress, with few exceptions, clean and comfortable. In manners serious yet cheerful and easily excited to gaiety; frank and familiar in conversation, and...
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Irish Monthly, Volume 41

1913 - 704 pages
...for happily their common poverty holds out less temptation to the one or opportunity for the other. " They never swear, and they have a high sense of decency...strangers polite and respectful ; but, at the same time, wholly free from servile adulation. They are communicative, but not too loquacious ; inquisitive after...
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