This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...himself prematurely forward. During his first session of Parliament he remained, comparatively speaking, unnoticed.-Ho was phenomenally constant in attendance, and he was in tho habit of putting what, in these early days of the new Irish Party, was considered a very large number of questions. But nobody yet had any ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...himself prematurely forward. During his first session of Parliament he remained, comparatively speaking, unnoticed.-Ho was phenomenally constant in attendance, and he was in tho habit of putting what, in these early days of the new Irish Party, was considered a very large number of questions. But nobody yet had any idea that there was anything in him above very earnest and very respectable mediocrity, nor during the recess which followed did he advance his position to any appreciable degree. He'waa certainly one of the most constant among tho speakers at the Land League meetings througheut the country; but this fact, while it procured him the notice of the Government so far that he was included in the famous trial of the traversers, did not have any very perceptible effect upon his own political fortunes. It was on an evening when Mr. Forster's Coercion Bill was under discussion that Sexton broke uiion the House for the first time as a great orator. Tho House was, when lie rose, but ill-prepared, indeed, for a patient acceptance of any speech from an Irish member; for of the subject it was already sick to death; and the final outeome was as predestined as the procession of the earth through the regions of the air. The physical circumstances of the moment tended to increase the prevalent depression, for it was a dull, dark, dismal evening. The House was, therefore, listless, sombre, and but thinly filled when Sexton rose. He spoke for two heurs, not amid the enthusiastic plaudits which greet powerful exponent of a great party's principles, but amid chilling 6ilence, interrupted occasionally by the thin cheers of the small group of Irishmen around him--and yet when he sat down the whele House instinctively felt that a great orator had appeared among them. In ...
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Add this copy of The Parnell Movement; Being the History of the Irish to cart. $45.00, fair condition, Sold by Princeton Antiques Bookservice rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Atlantic City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1891 by CASSELL.
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GOOD-. 5X7. General shelf wear, well rubbed cover, book plate on front inner board, front board is cracked at the hinge, unmarked text, clear pages, good binding _PAB_
