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... Denis - stupid tiresome boy Denis is ! - caught away a slate from Ida and forthwith began a sketch of " Eveleen O'Rossa going to Court , " with her book under her arm . Lilian Trevor asked whether I was quite sure I could write the ...
... Denis - stupid tiresome boy Denis is ! - caught away a slate from Ida and forthwith began a sketch of " Eveleen O'Rossa going to Court , " with her book under her arm . Lilian Trevor asked whether I was quite sure I could write the ...
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... Denis ' grandchildren . Meanwhile I will keep it a secret , and I know every one else will soon have forgotten all about it . One thing is sure , I cannot possibly ex- pect my step - mother to understand about the hopes and fears I have ...
... Denis ' grandchildren . Meanwhile I will keep it a secret , and I know every one else will soon have forgotten all about it . One thing is sure , I cannot possibly ex- pect my step - mother to understand about the hopes and fears I have ...
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... Denis just younger . We had companions in our clergyman's adopted children - his nephew and niece - the Blakes of Loughnagurra , they were as wild as ourselves . Geraldine , who is just my age , was the wildest of all . I think she ...
... Denis just younger . We had companions in our clergyman's adopted children - his nephew and niece - the Blakes of Loughnagurra , they were as wild as ourselves . Geraldine , who is just my age , was the wildest of all . I think she ...
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... Denis was too young to care any- thing about it , but Roderick and Kevin ended by making me nearly as disaffected as them- selves . I was inclined to think it must be nice to have a mother - but my brothers frightened me by telling me ...
... Denis was too young to care any- thing about it , but Roderick and Kevin ended by making me nearly as disaffected as them- selves . I was inclined to think it must be nice to have a mother - but my brothers frightened me by telling me ...
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... Denis to buy me some tobacco for you . " The coaxing and bribery went on for some time , Terry deprecatingly averring that " his honour would kill him , " Ida assuring him that did not signify . It ended in the usual way , Terry gave in ...
... Denis to buy me some tobacco for you . " The coaxing and bribery went on for some time , Terry deprecatingly averring that " his honour would kill him , " Ida assuring him that did not signify . It ended in the usual way , Terry gave in ...
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Page 301 - And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all...
Page 40 - Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [to be} a propitiation for our sins.
Page 37 - ... by day and by night; avail yourselves of the natural advantages of your country, which are innumerable, and with which you are better acquainted than they. " Where you cannot oppose them in full force, constantly harass their rear and their flanks, cut off their provisions and magazines, and...
Page 46 - What have you got in your hand? A green bough. Where did it first grow? In America. Where did it bud? In France.
Page 36 - Rouse all the energies of your souls ; call forth all the merit and abilities which a vicious Government consigned to obscurity ; and under the conduct of your chosen leaders, march with a steady step to victory ! Heed not the glare of a hired soldiery, or aristocratic yeomanry — they cannot stand the vigorous shock of freemen.
Page 36 - ... being in the country is restored to those equal rights which the God of nature has given to all men ; until an order of things shall be established in which no superiority shall be acknowledged among the citizens of Erin but that of virtue and talents.
Page 36 - Your country is free, and you are about to be avenged. That vile government, which has so long and so cruelly oppressed you, is no more...
Page 66 - In the awful presence of God, I, AB do voluntarily declare, that I will persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and that I will also persevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland.
Page 40 - Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me.
Page 115 - Excellency the Lord- Lieutenant full powers to put down the rebellion, and to punish rebels in the most summary manner, according to martial law, does hereby give notice to all his Majesty's subjects, that he is determined to exert the powers...