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... nature will overlook deficiencies ; and my inadequacy to the task I have under- taken will be regarded by a generous audience with indul- gence . To repeat my congratulations to the promoters of this Association , or to the Parochial ...
... nature will overlook deficiencies ; and my inadequacy to the task I have under- taken will be regarded by a generous audience with indul- gence . To repeat my congratulations to the promoters of this Association , or to the Parochial ...
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... natural to suppose they would not churlishly withhold from our forefathers that which they themselves so highly prized . Thus are we prepared for the fact that Ireland possessed a Parliament ; and as we walk the streets of our beautiful ...
... natural to suppose they would not churlishly withhold from our forefathers that which they themselves so highly prized . Thus are we prepared for the fact that Ireland possessed a Parliament ; and as we walk the streets of our beautiful ...
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... belly somewhat big , which came to him rather by nature than by any gross feeding or surfeiting , for his diet was very temperate , and to say the truth , thought to • be more spare than comely , or for the THE IRISH PARLIAMENT . 9.
... belly somewhat big , which came to him rather by nature than by any gross feeding or surfeiting , for his diet was very temperate , and to say the truth , thought to • be more spare than comely , or for the THE IRISH PARLIAMENT . 9.
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... nature , he did , as it were , punish his body with continual exercise , and did , as it were , keep a continual war with himself . . . . In the evening , when he came home , he would never , or very seldom , sit either before or after ...
... nature , he did , as it were , punish his body with continual exercise , and did , as it were , keep a continual war with himself . . . . In the evening , when he came home , he would never , or very seldom , sit either before or after ...
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... nature more than by their rank , were ever loyal , ever faithful , ever true to their engagements , their honour , and their king . The policy of the Geraldines was simple and selfish , yet profound - a policy often acted upon in the ...
... nature more than by their rank , were ever loyal , ever faithful , ever true to their engagements , their honour , and their king . The policy of the Geraldines was simple and selfish , yet profound - a policy often acted upon in the ...
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Page 299 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 311 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 288 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 314 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 275 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 292 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 314 - Unskilful he to fawn, or seek for power, By doctrines fashioned to the varying hour ; Far other aims his heart had learned to prize, More bent to raise the wretched than to rise.
Page 298 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 289 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 312 - Tiber ! Father Tiber ! To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge this day !" So he spake, and speaking sheathed The good sword by his side, And, with his harness on his back, Plunged headlong in the tide.