Such anecdotes of our habits and customs as they crammed him with, it would appear, never were heard before; nothing was too hot or too heavy for the luckless cockney, who, when not sipping his claret, was faithfully recording in his tablet the mems.

for a very brilliant and very original work on Ireland.
"Fine country, splendid country; glorious people,--gifted, brave, intelligent, but not happy,--alas! Mr.Macnamara, not happy.

But we don't know you, gentlemen,--we don't indeed,--at the other side of the Channel.
Our notions regarding you are far, very far from just." "I hope and trust," said old Burke, "you'll help them to a better understanding ere long." "Such, my dear sir, will be the proudest task of my life.

The facts I have heard here this evening have made so profound an impression upon me that I burn for the moment when I can make them known to the world at large.

To think--just to think that a portion of this beautiful island should be steeped in poverty; that the people not only live upon the mere potatoes, but are absolutely obliged to wear the skins for raiment, as Mr.Doolan has just mentioned to me!" "'Which accounts for our cultivation of lumpers,' added Mr.Doolan, 'they being the largest species of the root, and best adapted for wearing apparel.' "'I should deem myself culpable--indeed I should--did I not inform my countrymen upon the real condition of this great country.' "'Why, after your great opportunities for judging,' said Phil, 'you ought to speak out.