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... remarkable characteristics of the man who for many years occupied a prominent position in the world , and who owed his singular power over his fellow - men more to the influence of a loving and beneficent nature than to intellectual ...
... remarkable characteristics of the man who for many years occupied a prominent position in the world , and who owed his singular power over his fellow - men more to the influence of a loving and beneficent nature than to intellectual ...
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... remarkable at such a period of life . While tied to his mother's apron - string , as his brothers declared him to be , he was not unmindful of their interests , or indifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed ...
... remarkable at such a period of life . While tied to his mother's apron - string , as his brothers declared him to be , he was not unmindful of their interests , or indifferent to their marked partiality for good things ; for he employed ...
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... remarkable for his love of order , his neatness of dress , and the propriety which , in spite of his voluntary poverty , distinguished the arrangements of his modest dwelling . To find any- thing out of its right place was , to him , a ...
... remarkable for his love of order , his neatness of dress , and the propriety which , in spite of his voluntary poverty , distinguished the arrangements of his modest dwelling . To find any- thing out of its right place was , to him , a ...
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... remarkable . Many of them hold to this day , and , it must be remarked , without having their justice or necessity questioned . A circumstance occurred which brought his mission in Kilkenny to a rather abrupt and unexpected termination ...
... remarkable . Many of them hold to this day , and , it must be remarked , without having their justice or necessity questioned . A circumstance occurred which brought his mission in Kilkenny to a rather abrupt and unexpected termination ...
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... remarkable work , he was elected a member of a society , partly political and partly social , known as the Monks of St. Patrick , which took its rise under the auspices of Mr. Yelverton , afterwards Lord Avonmore , and to which belonged ...
... remarkable work , he was elected a member of a society , partly political and partly social , known as the Monks of St. Patrick , which took its rise under the auspices of Mr. Yelverton , afterwards Lord Avonmore , and to which belonged ...
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