Lives of Irishmen's Sons and Their Descendants (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Lives of Irishmen's Sons and Their Descendants In selecting the lives of five great men as the subjects of this volume, I had the following objects in view: I. I thought I perceived in their histories the development of as many distinct types of Irish character, widely differing one from the other, but all exhibiting in remarkable degree, the national, latent genius of our race, modified by time, place, and circumstances. McMahon, Duke of Magenta and President of the French Republic, has long seemed to me the beau ideal of a Franco-Irish soldier, brave, austere, and reserved, loving arms as a profession and his native country with his whole heart, yet capable of yielding at times to the softer impulses of our nature, or of leading a desperate charge, amid dead and dying, with undisturbed composure. Andrew Jackson, seventh President of our Republic, I regard as a thorough North-of-Ireland Gael, rugged, inflexible, and thoroughly tenacious in purpose, with a mind that arrived at just conclusions more by intuition than through reflection, and whose will was so unswerving that he easily gained the mastery over more cultivated, but less firm dispositions. 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.