The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared with the losses suffered by nearly all the firms in the cotton trade during the disastrous years of the American war.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.