The Sons of the Emerald Isle, or Lives of One Thousand Remarkable Irishmen: Including Memoirs of Noted Characters of Irish Parentage or Descent (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Sons of the Emerald Isle, or Lives of One Thousand Remarkable Irishmen: Including Memoirs of Noted Characters of Irish Parentage or Descent It would have been desirable to give at greater length the lives of those who had attained to distinction in the various departments of human pursuit, could that have been accomplished without such an increase in lhe size and cost of the work as would materially lessen its circulation. These pages afford abundant proofs, that Irishmen and their sons were second to ...
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Excerpt from The Sons of the Emerald Isle, or Lives of One Thousand Remarkable Irishmen: Including Memoirs of Noted Characters of Irish Parentage or Descent It would have been desirable to give at greater length the lives of those who had attained to distinction in the various departments of human pursuit, could that have been accomplished without such an increase in lhe size and cost of the work as would materially lessen its circulation. These pages afford abundant proofs, that Irishmen and their sons were second to none, in faithfulness to popular institutions, and in efforts, in and 1812, to uphold the independence of the Union - that they are the liberal friends and patrons of science and the useful arts, everywhere - that they know the value of a government founded on mild and equal laws, and despise those who would barter liberty for worldly wealth or aristocratic connexion and that on both sides of the Atlantic, and in every quarter of the globe, the sons of the Emerald Isle, have been honorably distinguished for sagacity and courage, learning, skill, and manly enterprise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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