Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Residence of James Monroe, London County, Virginia.* .. 456 THOMAS ADDIS THOMAS ADDIS EMMET. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, an eminent Irish lawyer and patriot, was born in thecity of Cork, in Ireland, April 24, 1764. His parents were highly respectableinhabitants of that city, in easy circumstances. The son was placed, in hisboyhood, at
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . Residence of James Monroe, London County, Virginia.* .. 456 THOMAS ADDIS THOMAS ADDIS EMMET. THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, an eminent Irish lawyer and patriot, was born in thecity of Cork, in Ireland, April 24, 1764. His parents were highly respectableinhabitants of that city, in easy circumstances. The son was placed, in hisboyhood, at the university of Dublin, and designed by his father for the profes-sion of medicine. He was educated accordingly, and pursued his medicalstudies at Edinburgh. The death of his elder brother, a member of the Irishbar, occasioned him to pass from the practice of medicine to the study of thelaw, at the desire of his parents. He went to London, read two years in theTemple, and attended the courts at Westminster. On his return to Dublin, hecommenced practice, and soon obtained distinction and business. The cele-brated Curran was one of his circuit and term companions. Being of an ardent character, and enthusiastically Irish, Mr. Emmet imbibeddeeply the resentment and antipathy of the majority of his countrymen againstthe British rule and
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