Irish melodiesLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans&Roberts, 1858 - 165 pages |
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Page ix
... Robert Emmet . He was my senior , I think , by one class , in the university ; for when , in the first year of my ... Emmet's eloquence upon his young auditors was , I recollect , a most striking . The prohibition against touching upon ...
... Robert Emmet . He was my senior , I think , by one class , in the university ; for when , in the first year of my ... Emmet's eloquence upon his young auditors was , I recollect , a most striking . The prohibition against touching upon ...
Page xi
... Robert Emmet ; and though every care was taken to exclude from the subjects of debate all questions verging towards ... Emmet's speeches , and so little were even the most eloquent of the adverse party able to cope with his powers , that ...
... Robert Emmet ; and though every care was taken to exclude from the subjects of debate all questions verging towards ... Emmet's speeches , and so little were even the most eloquent of the adverse party able to cope with his powers , that ...
Page xii
... Emmet was as modest as he was high - minded and brave , he began , in the full career of his eloquence , to hesitate ... Robert Emmet used sometimes to sit by me , xiii when I was thus engaged ; and I remember xii PREFACE .
... Emmet was as modest as he was high - minded and brave , he began , in the full career of his eloquence , to hesitate ... Robert Emmet used sometimes to sit by me , xiii when I was thus engaged ; and I remember xii PREFACE .
Page xviii
... Robert Emmet , John Brown , and the two ****** st , whose total absence from the whole scene , as well as the dead silence that , day after day , followed the calling out of their names , proclaimed how deep had been their share in the ...
... Robert Emmet , John Brown , and the two ****** st , whose total absence from the whole scene , as well as the dead silence that , day after day , followed the calling out of their names , proclaimed how deep had been their share in the ...
Page xxiv
... Robert Emmet's dying speech , " Let no man write my epitaph . let my tomb remain uninscribed , till other times and other men shall learn to do justice to my memory . " • • ˇ The feeble attempt to commemorate the glory of our great Duke ...
... Robert Emmet's dying speech , " Let no man write my epitaph . let my tomb remain uninscribed , till other times and other men shall learn to do justice to my memory . " • • ˇ The feeble attempt to commemorate the glory of our great Duke ...
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