"48" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discussion which it has excited. On this subject his Grace writes: "It would be blindness not to see, and madness to deny, that we have entered into another crisis in the relation of England and Ireland, of which '98, '28, and '48 were precursors;" and he argues with clearness and authority, that when Englishmen once have granted justice to Ireland, Ireland will cease to accuse England ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... means of large iron stoves, fed with wood; yet so intense is the cold, that I have seen the stove in places red-hot, and a basin of water in the room frozen nearly solid. The average cold, I should think, is about 15 or 16 degrees below zero, or 48 degrees of frost. The country around is a complete swamp, but the extreme shortness of the warm weather, and the consequent length of winter, fortunately prevent the rapid decomposition of vegetable matter. Another cause of the unhealthiness of the ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne
... northern constellation, and one of the old 48 asterisms; it is popularly known as the Waggoner: ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... of England, she writes of 'the crowds, the rejoicings, the hallooing and singing, and garlanding and decorating of all the inhabitants of this old city [Exeter], and of all the country through which we passed.' Ib. v. 48. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell
... Saint Simon; Burnet, ii. 95.; Guardian No. 48. See the excellent letter of Lewis to the Archbishop of Rheims, which is quoted by Voltaire in ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 4 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
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