Sketches of the Irish Bar : With Essays, Literary And Political
The book Sketches of the Irish Bar : With Essays, Literary And Political was written by author Curran, William Henry, 1789?-1858 Here you can read free online of Sketches of the Irish Bar : With Essays, Literary And Political book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Sketches of the Irish Bar : With Essays, Literary And Political a good or bad book?
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Plunket's countenance is deep seriousness — an expression that becomes more strongly marked from the unvarying pallor that overspreads his fea- tures. It is literally "the pale cast of thought." Some have accused his physiognomy as being unsocial and austere. To me it appeared, that the signs of those qualities have been confounded with the natural, and now indelible, traces of a grave and vigorous intellect, habitually absorbed in masculine investigations, and preferring to dwell in the midst ...of its own thoughts. Nor do I find any thing re- pelling in the circumstance that his features seldom descend for a moment from their dignity. Knowing 142 SKETCHES OP THE IRISH BAR. what his mind and his histoiy have been, I am pre- pared for what I meet; I find no flashes of sensi- bility, no play of shifting or conflicting emotions, but a calm, constitutional severity of aspect, importing a mind conscious of its powers, and vigilantly keeping them in unremitted discipline against the daily task that awaits them.
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