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"G. HIGGINS."
"Please receive the assurance of my consideration, and in confident reliance that you will use your influence in this matter, and favour me with the upshot instantly after Monday's Board,--I remain, ever sincerely yours,
"HENRY O'BRIEN."
"HENRY O'BRIEN.
"J. H. SINGER.
"H. O'Brien, Esq."
"DEAR DR. SINGER,--I do not quite understand the closing observation of your last letter. If the Academy mean me a kindness, I should trust that my nature is too sensible of such advances not suitably to acknowledge it; and I should be sorry that, either from obscurity in the diction, or want of quickness in my perception, I were to lose the opportunity of making a grateful return. Let me, therefore, put the following interrogatory to set myself right, viz.:--
"My Essay, however, does not want those new papers: the Council, therefore, will please have them sealed and handed over to the custody of Mr. Tims, my bookseller, in Grafton Street. The only additions which I shall insist upon being inserted are those contained in my letters in appropriate places, as I shall point out.
"HENRY O'BRIEN."
"SIR,--I am directed by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy to inform you that they feel themselves compelled, in consequence of your late letters, to decline the publication of your Essay, or the maintaining any further correspondence with you on the subject.
"Your Essay and the additional matter will be sent, as you desire, to Mr. Tims, Grafton Street, as soon as a copy of the former can be taken.--I am, sir, your most obedient,
"H. O'Brien, Esq."
All communications addressed to me, to the care of my publisher, Mr. Whittaker, Ave Maria Lane, St. Paul's, London, will reach me, and be attended to.
THE ROUND TOWERS OF IRELAND;
THE HISTORY OF THE TUATH-DE-DANAANS
BY HENRY O'BRIEN, ESQ., A.B.
"Hic sacra, hic genus, hic majorum multa vestigia." CICERO.
... "were of fame, And had been glorious in another day." BYRON.
SECOND EDITION.
TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, ETC. ETC. ETC.
MY LORD MARQUIS,
Many reasons concur why I should feel ambitious to associate your name with the following production. To enumerate these would neither become my humility, nor be acceptable to your good taste. But there is one motive which, as it is the offspring of the heart, implanted there at a period when adulation was not dreamt of, I may be allowed to particularise,--I was born upon your estates--you are the landlord of that spot which imparted my earliest images--the first soarings of my fancy were derived from that scene--and to the native notes which I have lisped in that primitive and retired region, more than to the vaunted advantages of a subsequent collegiate career, am I beholden for the clue with which I have traversed the ancient world; and of which Envy herself must yet acknowledge, that I have here rectified the history in its very widest amplitude--as well sacred as profane.
My Lord Marquis, Your Lordship's most devoted And most faithful, humble Servant, HENRY O'BRIEN.
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DEVENISH ROUND TOWER 38
ARDMORE " " 71
CLONDALKIN " " 101
EFFIGY OF FARRAGH, OR MORIAGAN 138
SAMONA OF BUDDHA 140
ROUND TOWER, WITH DEVOTEE ON SUMMIT 169
SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE FOUND AT VINDOLANA 223
PALENCIAN SCULPTURE OF THE SYMBOLIC "TREE," WITH FIGURES 229
PYTHAGOREAN TRIANGLE OF TEN 268
SYMBOLIC CRESCENT-ORNAMENTS 273, 274
EFFIGY OF CRUCIFIED BUDDHA, SACA, OR MACHA 296
BRECHIN ROUND TOWER , WITH DOUBLE-ARCH AND EFFIGIES 299
OBELISK AT SANDWICK 306
PHOENICIAN MEDALS, STAMPED WITH CROSS, LAMB, AND ROSARY 314
SHAFT OF CROSS AT FORRES 316
" " " REVERSE SIDE OF SAME 319
MONOLITH AT CARNAC 322
SCULPTURE IN KNOCKMOY ABBEY 329, 330
SCULPTURE ON TEMPLE AT KALABCHE 341, 342
KILCULLEN, CROSS AT 338
CLONMACNOISE, " 358
FINGLAS " 366
KELLS " 491
FACSIMILE OF MS. DISCOVERED AT ICOLMKILL 419
PHEELEAS, OR ORACLE-TUBE, FOUND AT BALLYMONEY 460
GLENDALOUGH, CURIOUS SYMBOLIC SCULPTURE ON RUINS OF 467
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