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Grace After Dinner
A Dog's Religion
The Upstart
His Duel With Captain D'esterre
His Birth
A Certificate Of Marriage
Wisdom
A Mistaken Frenchman
A Courtier's Retort
The Serenading Lover
Least Viewed
His Birth
Retentive Memory
O'leary And Captain Rock
O'connell And Secretary Goulburn
Lord Clare
His Person And Mode Of Argument
His Duel With Bully Egan
His Controversy With An Infidel
Curran At A Debating Society
His Reception At The Rotundo By The Volunteers
Random Irish Humour
The Dean And Faulkner
Swift Arbuthnot And Parnell
Chief Justice Whitshed's Motto On His Coach
Controversy With John Wesley
His Encounter With Biddy Moriarty
His Habits Of Study--his Influence
Darby Moran
To Quilca
Edmond Burke
Swift And His Butler
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High Authority
Irish Humour Home
Curran was once engaged in a legal argument; behind him stood his
colleague, a gentleman whose person was remarkably tall and slender, and
who had originally intended to take holy orders. The Judge observing
that the case under discussion involved a question of ecclesiastical
law,--Then, said Curran, I can refer your Lordship to a high
authority behind me, who was intended for the church, though in my
opinion he was fitter for the steeple.
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