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Excerpt from SermonsThe same loosened tide frequently breaks through the surface in the pages now before the reader.The public need not be told that his leading feature was his priestly character and cast of mind, as a priest alone he speaks here, hence the unaffected outpouring of his inmost heart.He never strains after effect or turns aside to pursue a ¿ight of imagery or a musical cadence, from first to last his sole concern is to send home...

Excerpt from The Queen's FilletYes, you are right. These things are in the hands of the gods. If only I could shut out the vision!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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 repai...

Excerpt from Literary Life, Essay, PoemsCanon Sheehan needs no editor's introduction, even to the present generation, though it has lived to see an Ireland vitally different from that so affectionately described in his reminiscent essay, The Moonlight of Memory - as different, perhaps, as that rather unheroic epoch was from the time of Sarsfield. That essay and another, Lenten Time in Doneraile, in which he tells of an aspect of our national l...

Excerpt from Miriam LucasTwas for that we borrowed our gallant steeds, but I have a decided objection to an amalgam of fresh and salt water. I take my liquor neat, externally as well as internally.And Hugh Ireton, too lazy to Offer resistance to the superior Will, acquiesced, and they rode on in silence. When they came opposite Redington House, Ireton again pointed to the clear blue waves beneath, that were just then asleep under the sun, with...

Excerpt from Lost Angel of a Ruined Paradise: A Drama of Modern LifeEva. - Yes, Miss Prue. Have you? N ow, no blunder, Miss Prue, or I shall certainly laugh out, and shan't I get my penance in the morning? You disgraced the community, Miss! You shamed the Institute before all Dublin! Thus saith, or shall say, the gentle mistress, already niched and statued as a saint!Grace - Shame, Eva! There's no one like our mistress in the whole world! What...

Excerpt from The Blindness of Dr. GrayThe Very Reverend William Gray, D.D., Parish Priest of the united parishes of Doonvarragh, Lackagh, and Athboy, came down to breakfast one dark, gloomy December morning in the year of our Lord 18 - .He had risen early, like all the old priests of his generation, made his half-hour's meditation according to his rigorous rule and habit, made his quarter-hour's preparation for Mass, celebrated the Holy Sacrif...

Excerpt from Luke DelmegeThen, one winter's night, I was bowling home in the dark from the railway station, and became suddenly aware that voices were shouting warnings from afar off, and that the line was blocked. So it was - badly. My mysterious friend was vainly trying to cut the harness on his fallen mare, whilst his trap, dismembered, was leaning in a maudlin way against the ditch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of t...

Excerpt from The Souvenir of Canon Sheehan: Being Extracts From His WritingsSenses one of the best read men of his days) was born at Mallow, in 1852, educated at St. Colman's, Fermoy, and Maynooth, and after ordination, in 1875, served for two years on the English mission in Devonshire, where his preach ing and personality made him at once remarked. Later he was Curate at Queenstown, becoming p.p. Of his native Doneraile in 1895. He was in sta...

Excerpt from Under the Cedars and the StarsBut my garden is something more to me. It is my Stan - my porch, where some unseen teacher ever speaks, as if with voice authoritative. It is to me the grove of Academe. Here, under the laburnum, or the solitary lime or sycamore, I walk with spirits quite as wise as those who trod the ancient groves with Plato, and questioned him sharply, and drew out his wonderful dialectical powers. But my spirits q...

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Geoffrey Austin - Student is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishe...

Excerpt from How Character Is Formed Character is the moral basis of life. It is the' foundation on which the lower habitation of our earthly destiny, and the higher superstructure of our eternal fate, are built, for woe and destruction, or for permanency and weal. For this life of ours is, like the Bridge of Sighs, a palace and a prison on each hand, with this difference, that it is no longer a Council of Three, masked and veiled in impenetr...

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Excerpt from Under the Cedars and the StarsBut my garden is something more to me. It is my Stan - my porch, where some unseen teacher ever speaks, as if with voice authoritative. It is to me the grove of Academe. Here, under the laburnum, or the solitary lime or sycamore, I walk with spirits quite as wise as those who trod the ancient groves with Plato, and questioned him sharply, and drew out his wonderful dialectical powers. But my spirits q...

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