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Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, ... written by himself, ed. by W.T.W. Tone
Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone written by himself ed by WTW Tone Author:Theobald Wolfe Tone Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: significantly, like Lord Burlcigh, and so we parted. I am to day on my last five louis. which is a circumstance truly amusing. My regiment, if I get it, comes ju... more »st in the nick of time. But hang money, I hate to think of it, and yet there is no doing without it, in this vale of tears. "Effbdiuntur opes, irritamenta malorum," as the learned Lilly saith in his grammar. If that be so, I shall soon be on the high road to virtue, for I am like to be shortly quit of all temptation to vice. But hang it for me, as I have said archly enough above. (Sings) ' Oh money, money, money is your friend." "Passion of mil heart and life, I hare a greater mind for to cry." (Sings) When as I sat in Pabijlon: and a thousand -vagrant posies," c. $'c. $t. July, 1796. July 1. (Sings, with great courage,) '' Oh, July ihe first in " Oldbridge-town, there was a grievous battle." We made no great figure that day, that is the God's truth of it. Well, no matter, what is past, is past. We must sec and do better the next time; besides, we pulled up a little the year after at Aughrim, and made a most gallant defence at Limerick. But I am writing a history of the wars in Ireland, instead of minding my business. Suifice it to say, (God forgive me for lying,) that we are undoubtedly the bravest nation in Europe. There are. however, some brave men scattered here and there through the French army, but let that pass. / hope to see a battle yet lief ore I die: huzza! generally! .//// 2. Clarke has been confined to his room, and I believe to his bed, for these four days; he is cut down by continual labor in his bureau. This delays my affair a little. I saw his aid-de-camp to day, who told me by his orders, "that he hoped "to see me the day after to-morrow; that he wished to consult " me on an affair of great imp...« less