The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Life and Letters of the Great Earl of Cork Most of us have been so long accustomed to think of Ireland as ´the distressful country,´ the land of ´old, unhappy far-off things,´ that we feel an incredulous surprise on hearing of a man who actually won name and fame in Ireland, and whose own fortune prospered while he shed prosperity around him. By a happy chance we are able to become intimately acquainted with this exceptional man. In the diary which the piety of his descendants has treasured at Lismore, we can read how Richard Boyle thanked God for enabling him to do good works for the commonwealth, and prayed, ´ God damn Redmond Fitzgerald for turning pirate´; we can see the kindly old man sending away an erring maidservant in his own coach, though no feeling of Christian charity could make him either forgive or forget the rough words of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and the injuries of the Earl of Strafford. We learn to smile at his hot temper, to aspire with his ambitions, to grieve with his sorrows, till, when we close the last page of the record of his life, we feel that we are bidding farewell to a familiar and honoured friend, rather than to a forgotten worthy, who loved and hated three hundred years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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