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... persons who have not , in their earliest years , experienced the greatest pleasure , and imbibed the highest moral truths , from the perusal of the " Early Lessons " and " The Parent's Assistant . " " Rosamond and Frank , " " The Little ...
... persons who have not , in their earliest years , experienced the greatest pleasure , and imbibed the highest moral truths , from the perusal of the " Early Lessons " and " The Parent's Assistant . " " Rosamond and Frank , " " The Little ...
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... person to whom they were directed ; and several years after- ward , when Lady Cathcart recovered her liberty , she received her diamonds safely . At Colonel M'Guire's death her ladyship was released . The editor , within this year , saw ...
... person to whom they were directed ; and several years after- ward , when Lady Cathcart recovered her liberty , she received her diamonds safely . At Colonel M'Guire's death her ladyship was released . The editor , within this year , saw ...
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... any more , for that she was sure he did not love her , nor never had : this we learned from Mrs. Jane , who was the only person left present at all this . " My dear , " returns my master , thinking 44 CASTLE RACKRENT .
... any more , for that she was sure he did not love her , nor never had : this we learned from Mrs. Jane , who was the only person left present at all this . " My dear , " returns my master , thinking 44 CASTLE RACKRENT .
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... person , and the sheriff , as ill - luck would have it , was no friend of his , and talked how he must do his duty , and how he would do it , if it was against the first man in the country , or even his own brother ; let alone one who ...
... person , and the sheriff , as ill - luck would have it , was no friend of his , and talked how he must do his duty , and how he would do it , if it was against the first man in the country , or even his own brother ; let alone one who ...
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... person as Sir Condy Rackrent , Bart . , was to be found in those parts . " - " Oh , I understand all those ways better , no offence , than you , " says he , laughing ; and at the same time filling his glass to my master's good health ...
... person as Sir Condy Rackrent , Bart . , was to be found in those parts . " - " Oh , I understand all those ways better , no offence , than you , " says he , laughing ; and at the same time filling his glass to my master's good health ...
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Страница 16 - Now it was that the world was to see what was in Sir Patrick. On coming into the estate he gave the finest entertainment ever was heard of in the country: not a man could stand after supper but Sir Patrick himself, who could sit out the best man in Ireland, let alone the three kingdoms itself.
Страница 17 - He that goes to bed, and goes to bed sober, Falls as the leaves do, falls as the leaves do, and dies in October ; But he that goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow, Lives as he ought to do, lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
Страница 20 - Why, he could hardly turn about for them. I made bold to shrug my shoulders once in his presence, and thanked my stars I was not born a gentleman to so much toil and trouble; but Sir Murtagh took me up short with his old proverb, 'learning is better than house or land.
Страница 98 - Alexander, instead of putting his seal upon the lips of the curious impertinent, the English gentleman thought proper to reprove the Hibernian, if not with delicacy, at least with poetical justice. He concluded writing his letter in these words : ' I would say more, but a damned tall Irishman is reading over my shoulder every word I write.
Страница 140 - I can espy in all this company, so that if any man can tell any cause of it, ye of likelihood can say most to it, or at leastwise, more than any man here assembled. Yea forsooth, good master...
Страница 4 - Two circumstances, in particular, recalled my recollection of the mislaid manuscript. The first was the extended and well-merited fame of Miss Edgeworth, whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbors of Ireland, that she may be truly said to have done more towards completing the Union, than perhaps all the legislative enactments by which it has been followed up.
Страница 167 - Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining...
Страница 28 - Now one would have thought this would have been hint enough for my lady, but she fell to laughing like one out of their right mind, and made me say the name of the bog over, for her to get it by heart, a dozen times...
Страница 28 - You are blind," my dear, says he ; "what are these under your eyes?" "These shrubs," said she. " Trees," said he. " May be they are what you call trees in Ireland, my dear," says she ; " but they are not a yard high, are they ?" " They were planted out but last year, my lady...
Страница 19 - ... linen out of the estate from first to last ; for after the spinning, the weavers on the estate took it in hand for nothing, because of the looms my lady's interest could get from the Linen Board to distribute gratis. Then there was a bleach-yard near us, and the tenant dare refuse my lady nothing, for fear of a lawsuit Sir Murtagh kept hanging over him about the water-course.