This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...on a pedestal of white marble, clad in a Roman military habit. This admirable statue, executed by Van Nost, was presented to the merchants of Dublin by the Earl of Northumberland, and cost the sum of 700 guineas. In a gloomy corner of the enclosing ambulatory, a statue of the late Right Hon. Henry Grattan has been ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...on a pedestal of white marble, clad in a Roman military habit. This admirable statue, executed by Van Nost, was presented to the merchants of Dublin by the Earl of Northumberland, and cost the sum of 700 guineas. In a gloomy corner of the enclosing ambulatory, a statue of the late Right Hon. Henry Grattan has been erected, at the public expense: it is in white marble, and executed by Chantry. In a niche on the staircase leading to the Coffee Room and Bankrupt Commissioners' apartments, is a fine statue, in marble, of Dr. Lucas, many years representative of the city of Dublin in the Irish Parliament;--it is the workmanship of Edward Smyth, a pupil of Van Nost's, and possesses much merit. The upper apartments in the Exchange, and indeed the great ambulatory below, are much less frequented by mercantile persons, since the erection of the Commercial Buildings in College Green. Ti-, PUBLIC LIBRARY NELSON'S PILLAR, DUBLIN. Sackville-street, in the city of Dublin, is almost universally acknowledged to be the noblest city avenue in Great Britain: it was laid out when the Irish nobility resided in Dublin, i.e. previous to the Union with England; and the mansions in Old Sackvillestreet, or Drogheda-street, as it was originally denominated, were built expressly by the Irish aristocracy for their town residences. The proprietory is certainly very much changed, but the picture has rather gained in interest by the transition; the solemn silence which generally reigns amid the palaces of the great, has been succeeded by the animation that accompanies a busy commercial scene. In the view of Sackville-street and Nelson's Pillar, the side of the magnificent Portico of the General Post Office is presented, in half-shade, through which the steeple and spire of St. George'...
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