Charles chenevix trench biography examples
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The Great Dan A BIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL O’CONNELL by Charles Chenevix Trench (Merrimack: $18.95; 345 pp.)
Daniel O’Connell was one of the great political figures of the 19th Century. His impact was not confined to Ireland. In the English House of Commons, he helped to establish the principle of democracy and also to gain voting rights for the Jews.
In Ireland, he is still known and venerated for his tireless labor in the cause of Catholic emancipation and of repeal of the Act of Union (1801). He was successful only in the first of these objects. The Union of Great Britain and Ireland continued in force until the Irish war of independence of 1916-’22, and was abolished then by methods of which O’Connell would have thoroughly disapproved. He always maintained that freedom was not worth the loss of a drop of blood. He is frequently blamed for not urging the peasants to fight during the great famine of 1847, when they allowed themselves to be virtually exterminated without protest.
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Richard Chenevix Trench
Anglican archbishop and poet (1807–1886)
Richard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 – 28 March 1886) was an Anglicanarchbishop and poet.
Life
[edit]He was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of Richard Trench (1774–1860), barrister-at-law, and the Dublin writer Melesina Chenevix (1768–1827).[1][2] His elder brother was Francis Chenevix Trench.[3] He went to school at Harrow, went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1829.[4] In 1830 he visited Spain.[5] While incumbent of Curdridge Chapel near Bishop's Waltham in Hampshire, he published (1835) The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems, which was favourably received, and was followed in 1838 by Sabbation, Honor Neale, and other Poems, and in 1842 by Poems from Eastern Sources. These volumes revealed the author as the most gifted of the immediate disciples of Wordsworth, with a warmer colouring and more pronounced ecclesiastical sym
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The Half-cracked Hero
Carl Sagan, in his latest book,* has been writing mordantly about “the paradoxers,” those who man fortunes out of pseudo-science to service the occult explosion of our times. It fryst vatten commonplace to see in that “explosion” a defensive movement, an obdurate and childish flygning from the authority of knowledge into Indian territory, into an empty place where a counterauthority can be set up and function on a barbarous parody of scientific lag. But it is more than that. Hogwash gives energy. People become restless for change, impatient to rebel, but find that all the ideological weapons they might use have been locked up. And out of the junk and scrap of the past, they will manufacture their own.
The nineteenth century swarmed with paradoxers; for every Darwin, there were crowds of people like Mary Baker Eddy and Joseph Smith, and respectable scientists who privately believed in fairies. Willful irrationalism, the synthesizing of new