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Excerpt from Sermons The 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 sen...

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Excerpt from Luke Delmege It happened in this way. I was absorbed in a daydream - an academic discussion with myself as to whether demand created supply or supply elicited demand - a hoary question throughout all the debating societies of the world, and I was making but little progress toward its solution, when suddenly it solved itself in a remarkable manner. I thought I heard, above the rumbling and muffled thunder of the colossal printing ...

Excerpt from Miriam Lucas On a very hot afternoon in the early summer of 188-two young Trinity students rode leisurely along the precipitous highway that runs from Cuskinny Bay in the Great Island to that particularly romantic and picturesque spot, known as the East Ferry. They had passed through Cuskinny demesne, and on the borders of the little bay had held an academical discussion about the advisability of bathing there. Hugh Ireton, the e...

Excerpt from The Queen's Fillet "What? Can you not hear it, - the rumbling of the earthquake beneath your feet, and the signs in the heavens above your heads? O, blind, and deaf, and foolish! And the storm will break, like the hurricane of fire on Gomorrah, and you will sink beneath it, as the doomed cities sank for ever under the lake of bitumen and sulphur!" "You are mad, mad, mad! These books have turned your mind. Give them up, Maurice, ...

Excerpt from Lost Angel of a Ruined Paradise: A Drama of Modern Life Eva. - 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! ...

Excerpt from The Blindness of Dr. Gray The 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 Sacr...

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