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Page 617 - Far from me and my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona.
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Page 616 - The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science have been swept away, new poets may invent, and new philosophers may reason ; but, if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses should invite the present age to cherish and perpetuate the valuable relics which have escaped.
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| Title | A Statistical Account, Or Parochial Survey of Ireland,: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Clergy, Volume 3 of A Statistical Account, Or Parochial Survey of Ireland,: Drawn Up from the Communications of the Clergy, William Shaw Mason |
| Compiled by | William Shaw Mason |
| Contributors | John Cumming, M. N. Mahon, Archibald Constable & Co, J. Nichols, Son, and Bentley, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, John Nichols and Sons (Farnham, England), Faulkner press, Hibernia Press, Graisberry & Campbell |
| Publisher | Graisberry and Campbell, 1819 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 20 Mar 2007 |
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