As a warning to others not to force education too soon or too fast, this case may be truly profitable to both parents and children, and a benefit to the cause of education; but as an example to be followed, it assuredly can not be too strongly or too loudly condemned.
[From the Dublin University Magazine.]
MAURICE TIERNAY, THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
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CHAPTER XVI.
"AN OLD GENERAL OF THE IRISH BRIGADE."
In obedience to an order which arrived at Saumur one morning in the July of 1798, I was summoned before the commandant of the school, when the following brief colloquy ensued:
"Maurice Tiernay," said he, reading from the record of the school, "why are you called l'Irlandais?"
"I am Irish by descent, sir."