This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.
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Davis, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1879, pt. 3.
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