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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 812 pages
...described with the same graphic effect : — u He had said of Flood ' that he forgot that he was an oak of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty.' Arid yet here he was himself. Whether he would take root was the question, and for some moments very...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 792 pages
...described with tne same graphic effect : — " He had said of Flood ' that he forgot that he was an oak of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty.' And yet here he was himself. Whether he wonld take root was the qnestion, and 'for some moments very...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

1851 - 604 pages
...described with the same graphic effect : — " He had said of Flood ' that he forgot that he was an oak of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty.' And yet here he was himself. Whether he would take root was the question, and for some moments very...
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Curran and His Contemporaries

Charles Phillips - 1851 - 464 pages
...Jupiter. He misjudged when he transferred himself to the English Parliament. He forgot that he was an oak of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty; and his seat in the British Parliament is a caution to the friends of Union to stay at home and make...
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The Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To which is Added ..., Volume 2

Henry Grattan - 1854 - 480 pages
...had the arm of a Jupiter ; he misjudged when he transferred himself to the English parliament ; he forgot that he was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty; and his seat in the British parliament is a caution to the friends of union to stay at home, and make...
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Lives of the Illustrious: (the Biographical Magazine)., Volume 7

1855 - 364 pages
...he had the arm of Jupiter. He misjudged when he transferred himself to the English Parliament — he forgot that he was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty; and his seat in the British Parliament is a caution to the friends of union to stay at home, and make...
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The Life of the Right Honorable John Philpot Curran: Late Master of the ...

William Henry Curran - 1855 - 566 pages
...he had the arm of a Jupiter. He misjudged when he transferred himself to the English Parliament ; he forgot that he was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty ; and bis fate in the British Parliament is a caution to the friends of union to stay at home, and...
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Bits of Blarney

Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1854 - 468 pages
...greatly distinguished himself in the Irish, and as greatly failed, in the English Parliament, said "he forgot that he was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty." O'Connell's opponents confidently anticipated his failure. He is too much of a mob-orator, was the...
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The Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To which is Added His Letter ...

Henry Grattan - 1861 - 490 pages
...the arm of a Jupiter ; he misjudged when he transferred himself to the English parliament ; he forgo: that he was a tree of the forest, too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty ; and his seat in the British parliament is a caution to the friends of union to stay at home, and...
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The Leaders of Public Opinion in Ireland

William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1861 - 324 pages
...who made the first motion of applause, exclaimed, " Burke told me that Grattan * ' ' He was an oak of the forest too old and too great to be transplanted at fifty." M was a wonderful man for a popular audience, and I see that he was right." The ' Annual Eegister '...
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