Robert emmett foothills college biography
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The Character of Robert Emmet
“Were I to remember, indeed, among all I have known, who appeared to me to combine in the greatest degree, pure moral worth with intellectual power, I should, among the highest of the few, place Robert Emmet.” - Thomas Moore, a friend of Emmet's at University College Dublin.
“So gifted a creature does not appear in a thousand years.” - Archibald Douglas, a university friend of Emmet who became a famous clergyman.
“Mr Robert Emmet, a young gentleman of highly respectable family, of very striking talents and interesting manners, was in the habit of visiting at Mr Curran’s house.” - Biographer of the lawyer John Philpot Curran, whose daughter Emmet courted.