Reminiscences of My Irish Journey in 1849S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882 - 263 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 178 - five or six hundred boys and lads, pretending to break stones. Can it be a charity to keep men alive on these terms? In face of all the twaddle of the earth, shoot a man rather than train him (with heavy expense to his neighbors) to be a deceptive human swine.
الصفحة 217 - on the modern system (the emancipation, all-forliberty, abolition - of - capital • punishment, roast-goose-at-Christmas system) ever seen by me, or like to be seen. Alas! how can it prosper, except to the soul of the noble man himself who earnestly tries it, and works at it, making himself a "slave
الصفحة 106 - gesticulation, boundless loyal welcome, red with dinner and some wine, engages that we are to meet to-morrow—and again with explosion of welcomes, goes his way. This Father O'Shea, some fifteen years ago, had been, with Emerson of America, one of the two sons of Adam who encouraged poor bookseller Fraser, and didn't discourage him, to go on with
الصفحة 143 - Weep ye by the stream of Babel, decent clean English-Irish; •weep, for there is cause, till you can do something better than weep; but expect no Babylonian or any other mortal to concern himself with that affair of yours! And, on the whole, I would recommend you rather to give up
الصفحة 168 - Maynooth grant." If the devil were passing through my country, and he applied to me for instruction on any truth or fact of this universe, I should wish to give it him. He is less a devil knowing that 3 and 3 are 6, than if he didn't know it; a light-spark,
الصفحة 81 - eyes and smallish globular black head; deep bass voice, with which he speaks slowly, solemnly, as if he were preaching. Irish (moral) Grandison—touch of that in him; sympathy with all that is good and manly, however, and continual effort towards that. Likes me, is hospitably kind to me, and I am grateful to him. Up-stairs about
الصفحة 79 - great hulks of men lying piled up within brick walls, in such a country, in such a day! Did a greater violence to the law of nature ever before present itself to sight, if one had an eye to see it ? Schools, for girls, rather goodish; for boys, clearly bad;
الصفحة 178 - three or four hundred big hulks of fellows tumbling about with shares, picks, and barrows, "levelling" the end of their workhouse hill. At first glance you would think them all working; look nearer, in each shovel there is some ounce or two of mould, and it is all