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Page 42
... towns of the same size , it has preserved an unusual number of eighteenth - century buildings . For in the time of Sterne's birth it was , by Irish standards , a town of some note . Clonmel's wool trade was well known in Yorkshire ...
... towns of the same size , it has preserved an unusual number of eighteenth - century buildings . For in the time of Sterne's birth it was , by Irish standards , a town of some note . Clonmel's wool trade was well known in Yorkshire ...
Page 43
... town . Cromwell had lost some two thousand men and spent five weeks in taking Clonmel in 1659. After the Stuart Restoration , the 1st Duke of Ormonde * took the town in hand . He ordered the building of the Main Guard , in about 1665 ...
... town . Cromwell had lost some two thousand men and spent five weeks in taking Clonmel in 1659. After the Stuart Restoration , the 1st Duke of Ormonde * took the town in hand . He ordered the building of the Main Guard , in about 1665 ...
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... town , we are obliged to read every foolish book that fashion renders prevalent in conversation ; and I am horribly out of humour with the present taste , which makes people ashamed to own they have not read , what if fashion did not ...
... town , we are obliged to read every foolish book that fashion renders prevalent in conversation ; and I am horribly out of humour with the present taste , which makes people ashamed to own they have not read , what if fashion did not ...
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS page xiii | 1 |
When They Begot Me | 33 |
Heygomad | 45 |
Copyright | |
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