Sketches of History, Politics and Manners: Taken in Dublin, and the North of Ireland, in the Autumn of 1810 ...C. Cradock and W. Joy, 1811 - 294 pages |
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Page 28
... deaths less me- lancholy ; some were drowned , some lost their lives in the yel- low fever , others in duels , and another because he could not get leave to fight one he was a young high - spirited West In- dian : -a short time after ...
... deaths less me- lancholy ; some were drowned , some lost their lives in the yel- low fever , others in duels , and another because he could not get leave to fight one he was a young high - spirited West In- dian : -a short time after ...
Page 30
... death - little did I ima- gine at that period it should be his fate to undergo such a one , or that it should be mine thus to record it . After our party broke up I went to the play - it was the Free Knights , which I was desirous to ...
... death - little did I ima- gine at that period it should be his fate to undergo such a one , or that it should be mine thus to record it . After our party broke up I went to the play - it was the Free Knights , which I was desirous to ...
Page 35
... death upon his oppo- nents ; the fire of his eloquence dries up and withers oppo- sition , like the lightning of heaven - the power of genera- lizing , which Mr. Grattan possesses , is most extraordinary , and is the true criterion of ...
... death upon his oppo- nents ; the fire of his eloquence dries up and withers oppo- sition , like the lightning of heaven - the power of genera- lizing , which Mr. Grattan possesses , is most extraordinary , and is the true criterion of ...
Page 37
... death for cowardice , and executed it with his own hand , by cutting him in two --- There is the utmost reason to suspect , however , that this narrative has no other foundation than the fiction of some Irish Bard , who 37.
... death for cowardice , and executed it with his own hand , by cutting him in two --- There is the utmost reason to suspect , however , that this narrative has no other foundation than the fiction of some Irish Bard , who 37.
Page 48
... death , nor did I seem to myself to breathe freely till I was some distance from it . A little further we met the lord and lady lieutenant , with their attendants and some other company . Imagination could hardly form a greater contrast ...
... death , nor did I seem to myself to breathe freely till I was some distance from it . A little further we met the lord and lady lieutenant , with their attendants and some other company . Imagination could hardly form a greater contrast ...
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