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On the 1st of June, the advance of the northern division marching upon Gorey, then occupied in force by General Loftus, were encountered four miles from the town, and driven back with the loss of about a hundred killed and wounded.
"What could I do? How could I withstand the expectations of a lady of her quality, and one who I believed loved me? However, for some time I did oppose my wish to oblige her; I urged my cloth, and the impossibility of accounting for such a line of conduct to the father of my pupil? The baroness ridiculed all these arguments as mere excuses, and ended with saying, 'Do as you please, Mr. Loftus.
In the British Museum there are some smaller bronze objects of the same kind from the palace of Sennacherib. Its internal diameter is about five inches, and its weight 6 lbs. 3-3/4 oz. These rings are now in the British Museum. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, vol. v. pp. 53-55. BOTTA, Monument de Ninive, plates 149 and 150. LOFTUS, Travels and Researches, p. 175.
Loftus turned to resume his argument with Catherine, Mabel's gay voice echoed more faintly as she ran on. Suddenly it stopped. Patter, patter, came back the swift feet, and, trembling and shivering, she threw herself into Loftus's arms. "I heard something there's something in the avenue!" The moon was shining, and showed Mabel's face as white as a sheet.
She said to me 'I hope your brother is not laughing at my little friend, Matty Bell. Then she added, 'I know Matty is not beautiful nor specially attractive, but she has the kindest heart. I said perhaps you were flirting, and that I knew you could flirt. She did not make any answer, only she looked grave, and turned away when you and Miss Bell came near us." "That accounts," began Loftus.
Loftus found a jaw of this animal, with the tusk still remaining, lying in a shallow clay dish in one of the tombs. Perhaps we may be justified in concluding, from the comparative rarity of any remains of animal food in the early sepulchres, that the primitive Chaldaeans subsisted chiefly on vegetable productions.
Walsh. According to the report of Loftus, who ordered his arrest , "he was one of great credit amongst his countrymen, and upon whom as touching causes of religion they wholly depended."
General Dundas from Wicklow was to join General Loftus at Carnew on the 18th; General Needham was to advance simultaneously to Gorey; General Sir Henry Johnson to unite at Old Ross with Sir James Duff from Carlow; Sir Charles Asgill was to occupy Gore's bridge and Borris; Sir John Moore was to land at Ballyhack ferry, march to Foulke's Mill, and united with Johnson and Duff, to assail the rebel camp on Carrickbyrne.
Go you to bed lave them to me and they're checkmated without so much as seeing how we bring it to pass. Dan hesitated. 'Arrah! go to your bed, Dan Loftus, dear. It's past eleven o'clock they're nonplussed already; and lave me me that understands it to manage the rest. 'Well, Sir, I do confide it altogether to you. I know I might, through ignorance, do a mischief.
Most of their writers lay claim to the Apostolic succession, through Adam Loftus, consecrated in England, according to the ancient rite, by Hugh Curwen, an Archbishop in communion with the See of Rome, at the time of his elevation to the episcopacy. In February, 1551, Sir Anthony St.
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