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Emmet

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Emmet
Robert. 1778--1803, Irish nationalist, executed for leading an uprising for Irish independence


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Beside the Bishop rode the Prior of Emmet upon a mincing palfrey.
If it is strange for me to look back from a distance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you who tread the same streets--who may to-morrow open the door of the old Speculative, where we begin to rank with Scott and Robert Emmet and the beloved and inglorious Macbean--or may pass the corner of the close where that great society, the L.
 
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