Men of Invention and IndustryHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 396 páginas |
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... Irish coast extreme poorly . " The vessel entered Cork harbor , and then Pett , thoroughly disgusted with privateering life , took leave of both ship and voyage . With much difficulty he made his way across the country to Wa- terford ...
... Irish coast extreme poorly . " The vessel entered Cork harbor , and then Pett , thoroughly disgusted with privateering life , took leave of both ship and voyage . With much difficulty he made his way across the country to Wa- terford ...
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... Irish in their very worst times . After the wreck of the Darien expedition , there seemed to be neither skill , enterprise , nor money left in the country . What re- sources it contained were altogether undeveloped . There was little ...
... Irish in their very worst times . After the wreck of the Darien expedition , there seemed to be neither skill , enterprise , nor money left in the country . What re- sources it contained were altogether undeveloped . There was little ...
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... Irish society with sufficient grasp . For my part , I cannot better compare it than to a man merging to convalescence from a serious attack of malignant fe- * Hall's " Ireland , " vol . ii . p . 76 . ver , and requiring generous ...
... Irish society with sufficient grasp . For my part , I cannot better compare it than to a man merging to convalescence from a serious attack of malignant fe- * Hall's " Ireland , " vol . ii . p . 76 . ver , and requiring generous ...
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... Irish railway traffic provokes perpetual irri- tation among the Irish people , and sufficiently accounts for the frequent petitions presented to Parliament that they should be taken in hand and worked by the state . Bianconi continued ...
... Irish railway traffic provokes perpetual irri- tation among the Irish people , and sufficiently accounts for the frequent petitions presented to Parliament that they should be taken in hand and worked by the state . Bianconi continued ...
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... Irish people have a past to boast of , and a future to create . " -J . F. O'Carrol . " One of the great questions is how to find an outlet for Irish man- ufactures . We ought to be an exporting nation , or we never will be able to ...
... Irish people have a past to boast of , and a future to create . " -J . F. O'Carrol . " One of the great questions is how to find an outlet for Irish man- ufactures . We ought to be an exporting nation , or we never will be able to ...
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Página 205 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages...
Página 98 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...