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My Life in Two Hemispheres. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Gavan Duffy - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Worldly wise friends, who considered my tranquillity rather than my duty, insisted that I should practise my profession as a barrister for some years, and not revive a struggle which had proved so barren and disastrous. On the other hand, a few suggested that the contest ought to be taken up at the precise point it had reached when the Habeas Corpus Act had been suspended. Some, of whom Fintan Lalor was the most notable, honestly believed that it was our duty to conspire for the speedy revival of insurrection in Munster.
My Life in Two Hemispheres. E-book. Formato PDF Charles Gavan Duffy - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
I propose to write my memoirs, not because I assume that the world is impatient to become acquainted with my adventures and misadventures, but because I have seen life under strange and varied conditions in two hemispheres, have encountered many notable men, and have something to tell of those protracted experiences which may prove worth hearing. In the language of Browning -"I have trod many lands, known many men,Probed many hearts, beginning with my own."And why should I omit another and stronger motive?