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... seem , their paternal ancestor came over to Ireland one of Cromwell's soldiers ; and the most ardent patriot she ever saw owed his origin to her most merciless and cruel plun- derer ! Old James Curran's education was pretty much in the ...
... seem , their paternal ancestor came over to Ireland one of Cromwell's soldiers ; and the most ardent patriot she ever saw owed his origin to her most merciless and cruel plun- derer ! Old James Curran's education was pretty much in the ...
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... seems to have been an early college friend . The volume has been out of print for very many years , and my extracts have been taken from a copy which , fortunately , is to be found in the British Museum . LETTER I. LONDON , 31 , Chandos ...
... seems to have been an early college friend . The volume has been out of print for very many years , and my extracts have been taken from a copy which , fortunately , is to be found in the British Museum . LETTER I. LONDON , 31 , Chandos ...
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... and the follow- ing evening , at five o'clock , was in view of near a hundred and twenty spires , that are scattered from one side of the horizon › to the other , and seem almost in the 26 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
... and the follow- ing evening , at five o'clock , was in view of near a hundred and twenty spires , that are scattered from one side of the horizon › to the other , and seem almost in the 26 CURRAN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES .
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Charles Phillips. › to the other , and seem almost in the mist that perpetually cov- ers this prodigious capital . It would be impossible by descrip- tion to give any idea of the various objects that fill a stranger , on his first ...
Charles Phillips. › to the other , and seem almost in the mist that perpetually cov- ers this prodigious capital . It would be impossible by descrip- tion to give any idea of the various objects that fill a stranger , on his first ...
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... seem , from the following extract , that Curran's own countenance was sometimes as severely taxed by others as mine was often thus , unquestionably , by himself . I have got acquainted with a Miss Hume , who is also an original in her ...
... seem , from the following extract , that Curran's own countenance was sometimes as severely taxed by others as mine was often thus , unquestionably , by himself . I have got acquainted with a Miss Hume , who is also an original in her ...
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Page 12 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 288 - She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, And lovers around her are sighing; But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, For her heart in his grave is lying.
Page 129 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 280 - I have but one request to ask, at my departure from this world; it is the charity of its silence.
Page 277 - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
Page 276 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law; I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...
Page 166 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 269 - For my own part, I will resist it to the last gasp of my existence and with the last drop of my blood, and when I feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, I will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom.
Page 269 - I in the most express terms deny the competency of parliament to do this act — I warn you, do not dare to lay your hand on the Constitution. I tell you that if, circumstanced as you are, you pass this act, it will be a nullity, and that no man in Ireland will be bound to obey it.
Page 178 - In vain for him the officious wife prepares The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm, In vain his little children, peeping out Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home.