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) - Hardcover

William L. Mackenzie

9780267868872: 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)

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ISBN 10: 0267868871 ISBN 13: 9780267868872

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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.

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