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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... never , I trust , be in the power of man to put asunder . I left London at six o'clock on Monday evening , the 29th of July , in the heavy coach , for Liverpool , from which place I knew I could have a speedy conveyance to Dublin . No ...
... never , I trust , be in the power of man to put asunder . I left London at six o'clock on Monday evening , the 29th of July , in the heavy coach , for Liverpool , from which place I knew I could have a speedy conveyance to Dublin . No ...
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... never went to sea , no matter at what season , or however fine the weather was before , that a storm did not rise immediately afterwards- I hardly ever got on horseback that I did not run the risk of having my neck broke , nor did I ...
... never went to sea , no matter at what season , or however fine the weather was before , that a storm did not rise immediately afterwards- I hardly ever got on horseback that I did not run the risk of having my neck broke , nor did I ...
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... never witnessed in the barn of a country town - having " neither the accent of christians , nor the gait of christian , pagan , nor man , they so strutted and bellowed , that they looked as if Bonaparte , or some of his journeymen , had ...
... never witnessed in the barn of a country town - having " neither the accent of christians , nor the gait of christian , pagan , nor man , they so strutted and bellowed , that they looked as if Bonaparte , or some of his journeymen , had ...
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... never a jot the less lovely , or the less attrac- tive - she is still an overflowing fountain of sweets , a hill of perpetual love ; her food is ambrosia , and she transudes frankincense ! Would some such had been in our cabin , 14.
... never a jot the less lovely , or the less attrac- tive - she is still an overflowing fountain of sweets , a hill of perpetual love ; her food is ambrosia , and she transudes frankincense ! Would some such had been in our cabin , 14.
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... visited this country last summer , is of a different opinion , and says , they are no more to be compared together than Brentford and Bath - I am sorry I cannot decide this important question - I never was in the Bay of Naples ; 15.
... visited this country last summer , is of a different opinion , and says , they are no more to be compared together than Brentford and Bath - I am sorry I cannot decide this important question - I never was in the Bay of Naples ; 15.
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