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A Dog's Religion
Grace After Dinner
His Duel With Captain D'esterre
A Certificate Of Marriage
His Birth
A Mistaken Frenchman
Wisdom
A Courtier's Retort
Arthur O'leary
A Martial Judge
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His Birth
Swift Arbuthnot And Parnell
To Quilca
His Reception At The Rotundo By The Volunteers
Epistolary Bores
Sir R Peel's Opinion Of O'connell
His First Client
Sow-west And The Wigs
Taxing The Air
Swift And Bettesworth
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Dean Swift And The Preacher Who Stole His Sermon
A Nolle Prosequi
His Birth
Controversy With John Wesley
Curran At A Debating Society
A Dead Man With Life In Him
Lying
O'leary And The Rector
Edmond Burke
Entrapping A Witness
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Howard The Philanthropist And Mr Henry Shears
Irish Humour Home
About this time it was, says his biographer, that the philanthropist
Howard, led by his benevolent enthusiasm to fathom dungeons, vindicate
the wrongs, and alleviate the sufferings of the lonely and forgotten
victim of vice and crime, arrived at Cork. A society had for some years
existed in that city 'for the relief and discharge of persons confined
for small debts,' of which O'Leary was an active and conspicuous member.
This association had its origin in the humane mind of Henry Shears,
Esq., the father of two distinguished victims to the political
distractions of their country in 1798: and a literary production of that
gentleman, which in its style and matter emulated the elegance and
morality of Addison, strengthened and matured the benevolent
institution. During Mr. Howard's stay in Cork, he was introduced to
O'Leary by their common friend, Archdeacon Austen. Two such minds
required but an opportunity to admire and venerate each other; and
frequently, in after times, Howard boasted of sharing the friendship and
esteem of the friar.
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