Excerpt from Sir Brook Fossbrooke: A Novel Sir Brook Fossbrooke: A Novel was written by Charles James Lever. This is a 619 page book, containing 229110 words and 2 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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...
Excerpt from Sir Brook Fossbrooke: A Novel Sir Brook Fossbrooke: A Novel was written by Charles James Lever. This is a 619 page book, containing 2...
If Providence, instead of a vagabond, had made me a justice of the peace, there is no species of penalty I would not have enforced against a class of offenders, upon whom it is the perverted taste of the day to bestow wealth, praise, honour, and reputation; in a word, upon that portion of the writers for our periodical literature whose pastime it is by high-flown and exaggerated pictures of society, places, and amusements, to mislead the too credulous and believing world; who, in the search for information and instruction, are but reaping a barren harvest of deceit and illusion.
If Providence, instead of a vagabond, had made me a justice of the peace, there is no species of penalty I would not have enforced against a class of ...
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Some one has said that almost all that Ireland possesses of picturesque beauty is to be found on, or in the immediate neighbourhood of, the seaboard; and if we except some brief patches of river scenery on the Nore and the Blackwater, and a part of Lough Erne, the assertion is not devoid of truth. The dreary expanse called the Bog of Allen, which occupies a tableland in the centre of the island, stretches away for miles-flat, sad-coloured, and monotonous, fissured in every direction by channels of dark-tinted water, in which the very fish take the same sad colour.
Some one has said that almost all that Ireland possesses of picturesque beauty is to be found on, or in the immediate neighbourhood of, the seaboard; ...
Excerpt from Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Late Secretary of Legation, 1848, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a strange tiling to begin a "Log" when the voyage is nigh ended A voyage without chart or compass has it been: and now is land in sight - the land of the weary and heart-tired Here am I, at the Hotel des Princes, en route for Italy, whither my doctors have sentenced me What a sad record would he preserved to the world if travellers were but to fill up, with good faith, the police formula at each stage of the journey, which asks, "the object of the tour " How terribly often should...
Excerpt from Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Late Secretary of Legation, 1848, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a strange tiling to begin a "Log" when the v...
Excerpt from Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Late Secretary of Legation, 1848, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a strange tiling to begin a "Log" when the voyage is nigh ended A voyage without chart or compass has it been: and now is land in sight - the land of the weary and heart-tired Here am I, at the Hotel des Princes, en route for Italy, whither my doctors have sentenced me What a sad record would he preserved to the world if travellers were but to fill up, with good faith, the police formula at each stage of the journey, which asks, "the object of the tour " How terribly often should...
Excerpt from Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Late Secretary of Legation, 1848, Vol. 1 of 2 It is a strange tiling to begin a "Log" when the v...
