An Historical Guide to the City of Dublin: Illustrated by Engravings, and a Plan of the City

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Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825 - 260 pages
 

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Page 138 - Church in her governors; and the institution of the Association for Discountenancing Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practice of the Christian Religion...
Page 206 - Bench. . Master of the Rolls. Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Judges and Barons of the degree of the Coif of the said Courts, according to Seniority.
Page 11 - University," under the style and title of the " College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity near Dublin, founded by Queen Elizabeth.
Page 44 - STELLA, under which she is celebrated in the writings of Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, Dean of this Cathedral. She was a person of extraordinary endowments and accomplishments in body, mind, and behaviour ; justly admired and respected by all who knew her, on account of her many eminent virtues, as well as for her great natural and acquired perfections.
Page 15 - THE THEATRE. — On the opposite, or south, side of the same square, stands the Theatre, or Examination Hall, with a front exactly corresponding to that of the Chapel, and of the same internal dimensions. This splendid hall is furnished with tables and forms, at which the students sit during the hours of examinations, and also at public lectures during...
Page 129 - Kinniburgh, the Edinburgh teacher, became released from his engagement, and offered, as he had promised before, to teach a master for this country, if remunerated. The committee selected Mr. Joseph Humphreys, the present master (at that time Registrar to the Society for promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland), as the most proper person to undertake the charge of their intended Institution ; and sent him to the Institution in Edinburgh, to study this peculiar branch of Education. In the mean...
Page 44 - Stella,' under which she is celebrated in the writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of this Cathedral.
Page 63 - In this church-yard many persons implicated in the unfortunate rebellion of 1798 were iinterred ; amongst them is one very remarkable man, Oliver Bond, who died in Newgate, while under sentence of death. Here is also a monument to the memory of Dr. Lucas, the first physician who ever sat in Parliament, with the following inscription : — - To the memory of CHARLES LUCAS, MD formerly one of the representatives in Parliament for the City of Dublin ; whose incorrupt integrity, unconquered spirit...
Page xix - Light-house is at an elevation of 200 feet above the level of the sea, and is visible over the whole of Caernarvon Bay.
Page 16 - LIBRAUV. — -The second quadrangle is the Librarysquare, 265 feet long, by 214 broad, three sides of which consist of uniform brick buildings, mostly devoted to the accommodation of the students. The library, which occupies the fourth side, is an extensive stone building, whose basement story is a piazza, the entire length of the square. Above this, are two stories surmounted by a rich Corinthian entablature, crowned with a balustrade. Of this building, as it was at first designed, a correct painting...

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