The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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... fancy to a rehearsal of the same in Ireland . Of this class was Prout , P.P. of Watergrasshill ; but his real value was very faintly appreciated by his rude flock : he was not understood by his contemporaries ; his thoughts were not ...
... fancy to a rehearsal of the same in Ireland . Of this class was Prout , P.P. of Watergrasshill ; but his real value was very faintly appreciated by his rude flock : he was not understood by his contemporaries ; his thoughts were not ...
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Francis Mahony. can conciliation , has an argumentum piscatorium quite to my fancy . Tolle ! lege ! " As to the wealth which these colonies have derived from the sea by their fisheries , you had all that matter fully opened at your bar ...
Francis Mahony. can conciliation , has an argumentum piscatorium quite to my fancy . Tolle ! lege ! " As to the wealth which these colonies have derived from the sea by their fisheries , you had all that matter fully opened at your bar ...
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... fancy was an unwasted mine , into which you had but to sink a shaft , and you were sure of eliciting the finest ore , which came forth stamped with the impress of genius , and fit to circulate among the most cultivated auditory : for ...
... fancy was an unwasted mine , into which you had but to sink a shaft , and you were sure of eliciting the finest ore , which came forth stamped with the impress of genius , and fit to circulate among the most cultivated auditory : for ...
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... fancy ever varied and radiant with joyfulness , -one who , for useful purposes , has interwoven the plain warp of history with the many- coloured web of his own romantic loom ; -but further do I hail in him the genius who has rendered ...
... fancy ever varied and radiant with joyfulness , -one who , for useful purposes , has interwoven the plain warp of history with the many- coloured web of his own romantic loom ; -but further do I hail in him the genius who has rendered ...
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... fancy and of inspiration . It is the first impulse of every genuine affection , the tendency of the heart in its fervent youthhood ; and nothing but the cold scepticism of an age which Edmund Burke so truly designated as that of ...
... fancy and of inspiration . It is the first impulse of every genuine affection , the tendency of the heart in its fervent youthhood ; and nothing but the cold scepticism of an age which Edmund Burke so truly designated as that of ...
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