Personal Sketches of His Own Times, 1권Carey, Lea and Carey, 1827 |
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... possessed very extensive landed estates in Queen's County , and had almost unlimited influence over its population , returning two members to the Irish Par- liament for Ballynakill , then a close borough . Cullenaghmore , the mansion ...
... possessed very extensive landed estates in Queen's County , and had almost unlimited influence over its population , returning two members to the Irish Par- liament for Ballynakill , then a close borough . Cullenaghmore , the mansion ...
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... possessed many of the books long after my grandfather's death , and have some of them still . I had an insatiable passion for reading from my earliest days , and it has occupied the greater portion of my later life . Gulliver's Travels ...
... possessed many of the books long after my grandfather's death , and have some of them still . I had an insatiable passion for reading from my earliest days , and it has occupied the greater portion of my later life . Gulliver's Travels ...
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... possessed the castle of Moret , near Bally - Brittis and not very far from Cullenagh , did not fare quite so well as my great - grandfather , before - mentioned . She and her husband held their castle firmly during the trou- bles . They ...
... possessed the castle of Moret , near Bally - Brittis and not very far from Cullenagh , did not fare quite so well as my great - grandfather , before - mentioned . She and her husband held their castle firmly during the trou- bles . They ...
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... possessed some money , he was afraid even to buy food , for fear of detection ! but recollecting that Mr. Lander , his old scholar , lived somewhere in the Temple , he got directed by a porter to the lodging . My friend Davy , though he ...
... possessed some money , he was afraid even to buy food , for fear of detection ! but recollecting that Mr. Lander , his old scholar , lived somewhere in the Temple , he got directed by a porter to the lodging . My friend Davy , though he ...
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... possessed any spirit , would have arisen en masse , to defend their bones from being made the subject of ridiculous experiment . Having groped for some time in the dark , I found the book , but my hand refused to lift it , and I sat ...
... possessed any spirit , would have arisen en masse , to defend their bones from being made the subject of ridiculous experiment . Having groped for some time in the dark , I found the book , but my hand refused to lift it , and I sat ...
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afterwards Aldborough amongst amused anecdote appeared attorney Bagenal Harvey Barrington barrister became believe Bench Blacquiere body brother called Captain castle certainly Chancellor character circumstance Clonmell Colclough Colonel conceived considered County Wexford course court curious Curran death Doctor dress Dublin Duke fact father feeling fellow fortune gave gentleman Grattan hand head heard Henry Grattan honour humour immediately Ireland Irish Isaac Corry JONAH BARRINGTON judge jury justice Keeran Kilkenny King King's King's counsel Knaresborough knew Lady Lanegan late laugh length libel Lord Camden Lord Castlereagh Lord Chancellor Lord Clare Lordship Marquess ment mind morning murder never night Norbury occasion Ormonde Parliament party patriot perceived person profession rebel recollect replied scarcely serjeant-at-arms Sir Boyle Sir Boyle Roche Sir John Sir John Parnel society soon squires talent thing thought tion told took trial vote warders Wexford whilst young
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151 페이지 - The glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William : not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money, and wooden shoes.
134 페이지 - It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker," said he, " to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder...
196 페이지 - A cause was argued in Chancery, wherein the plaintiff prayed that the defendant should be restrained from suing him on certain bills of exchange, as they were nothing but kites. — "Kites!" exclaimed Lord Redesdale: — " Kites, Mr. Plunkett? Kites never could amount to the value of those securities! I don't understand this statement at all, Mr. Plunkett." " It is not to be expected that you should, my Lord," answered Plunkett: " in England and in Ireland, kites are quite * An Irish vulgar idiom...
166 페이지 - ... was uppermost, but the air had made no impression on it whatever ! his comely and respect-inspiring face (except the pale hue, scarcely to be called livid) was the same as in life ; his eyes were not closed, his hair not much ruffled ; in fact, it appeared to me rather as a head of chiselled marble, with glass eyes, than as the lifeless remains of a human creature. This circumstance I never could get any medical man to give me the least explanation of. I prevailed on General Hunter, who then...
164 페이지 - My warning was not attended to, but his Majesty's government soon found I was right. They lost Wexford, and might have lost Ireland, by that culpable inattention.' " The result need scarcely be mentioned, every member of that jovial dinner party, (with the exception of myself, the barrister before alluded to, and Mr.
135 페이지 - Tyrawley for crim. con. with her ladyship. Never was there a more sensible blunder than the following. We recommend it as a motto to gentlemen in the army : " The best way," said Sir Boyle, " to avoid danger is to meet it plump.
131 페이지 - ... involuntarily repeated the suggestion literatim. Sir Frederick was once making a long speech in the Irish Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits of the Wexford magistracy, on a motion for extending the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep down the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid oration, by declaring that " the said magistracy ought to receive some signal mark of the Lord-Lieutenant's favor," John Egan, who was rather mellow, and sitting behind him, jocularly whispered,...
70 페이지 - ... carousal ; and, in the morning, when my brother awakened his guests, the mortar had completely set, and their hair being the thing most calculated to amalgamate therewith, the entire of Joe's stock, together with his queue, and half his head, was thoroughly and irrecoverably...
198 페이지 - ... satisfaction. Strong measures were immediately proposed : messengers despatched in all quarters to arrest him : very few knew who he was ; when Lord Norbury, with that vivacious promptness which he always possessed, on its being observed that no such transaction had ever occurred before, exclaimed — " I found the very same incident some few days back in the cross-readings of the columns of a newspaper. ' Yesterday a petition was presented to the house of commons — it fortunately missed fire,...