 | Chrysostom P. Donahoe - 1875 - 322 páginas
...Catholic, until they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said oi Kirwan, " The curse of Swift w as upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good." Mark what measure of success attended the able men who preceded... | |
 | Alfred Webb - 1878 - 616 páginas
...of the preacher, and cheated for a moment of their native improbity and insolence. What reward? . . The curse of Swift is upon him : to have been born...and to have used it for the good of his country." IS4 In Notes and Queries, ist Series, mention is made of his delivering even a shorter sermon than... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1884 - 36 páginas
...Catholic, until they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, "The curse of Swift was upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good." Mark what measure of success attended the able men who preceded... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1885 - 120 páginas
...for a moment of their native improbity. What reward ? St. Nicholas Within or St. Nicholas Without. The curse of Swift is upon him — to have been born an Irishman — to have possessed a genius, to have used his talents for the good of his country." Mr. Lecky observes... | |
 | John Thomas Ball - 1886 - 386 páginas
...often since applied with little appropriateness : . . . " The curse of Swift was upon him to have been an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used it for the good of his country." a member of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Controversial discussion he entirely avoided. The highest... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 648 páginas
...preacher, and cheated for a moment of their native improbity St. Nicholas within or St. Nicholas without. The curse of Swift is upon him, to have been born...and to have used it for the good of his country.' ' A career like that of Kirwan would have been scarcely possible in Ireland in the theological atmosphere... | |
 | 1887 - 152 páginas
...the repose of the pulpit, and shakes one world with the thunder of the other . . . What reward? . . . The curse of Swift is upon him, to have been born an Irishman ; to have possessed a genius, and to have used his talents for the good of his country. Had this man,... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1890 - 610 páginas
...Catholic, until thej came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, " The curse of Swift was upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good." Mark what measure of success attended the able men who preceded... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 508 páginas
...Catholic, until they came to hate him as a conqueror. As Grattan said of Kirwan, " The curse of Swift was upon him, to have been born an Irishman and a man of genius, and to have used his gifts for his country's good." Mark what measure of success attended the able men who preceded... | |
 | Edward Gibson Baron Ashbourne - 1898 - 466 páginas
...eloquence of Kirwan.1 1 Grattan said of Kirwan : ' The curse of Swift was upon him — to have been bom an Irishman, and a man of genius, and to have used it for the good of his country.' Sir Jonah Harrington (Sketches of His Own Times, i. 426) says of Kirwan : ' He pronounced one of the... | |
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What reward ? St. Nicholas Within or St. Nicholas Without ! The curse of Swift is upon him to have been born an Irishman ; to have possessed a genius, and to have used his talents for the good of his country. 
