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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1799 edition. Excerpt: ...to every law, and every measure, which the government vernment thought necessary, against the assault of foreign force or domestic disaffection. Unexceptionable, however, as Lord Charlemont's political conduct has been, it is not as a politician that he is exclusively entitled to our regard. He Is more highly estimable, perhaps, as a man of taste and literature. As a general scholar, he has not his equal in the Irish Peerage. Possessing a respectable knowlege of the learned languages, he is also intimately acquainted with those of modern Europe, particularly the Italian, in which he is an adept. To his love of letters, Ireland owes, in a great measure, the establishment of the only literary society (except the university) which she possesses, namely, the Royal Irish Academy, which' was incorporated by royal charter in 1786, and of which his lordship has, since its foundation, been annually elected president. Of this office, he discarges the duties, con amore, constantly attending its meetings, unless when ill health prevents, presiding wirh a father's care over its concerns, and occasionally contributing to fill the pages of its transactions. In these volumes, his lordship has published three essays, which are highly respectable; one on a contested passage in Herodotus; another on an ancient custom at Meteline, with considerations on its origin; and a third on the antiquity of the Woollen manufacture in Ireland, which he has proved from, some passages in the Italian poets. Tfeese, These, however, constitute but a small part of what his lordship has written. To some of his friends he has shewn, at various times, materials for larger1 works. With them, it is to be feared, the public will riot be savoured during his life; and they will,...
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