[Gutenberg 49792] • Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3)
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- Authors
- Barrington, Sir Jonah
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing
- Tags
- judges -- ireland -- biography , sir , barrington , ireland -- social life and customs -- 18th century , ireland -- social life and customs -- 19th century , 1760-1834 , jonah
- ISBN
- 9780548106327
- Date
- 1827-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.43 MB
- Lang
- en
Excerpt from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 of 2
For the purpose of completing that work, I had lately re-assumed my habit of writing; and being tired of so serious and responsible a concern as Memoirs of Ireland and the Union, I began to consider what species of employment might lightly wear away the long and tedious winter evenings of a demi-invalid and recollecting that I could nei ther live for ever nor was sure of being the last man, I conceived the idea of looking over and burning a horse-load or two of letters, papers, and fragments of all descriptions, which I had been carrying about in old trunks (not choosing to leave them at any body's mercy), and to which I had been perpetually adding.