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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals

Obituaries & funerals, 1848

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Original Poetry. on the Death of Lady Mary Fitz Roy

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 January 1848 · page 2

" Alike the palace and the cot:— Death reigns o'er all." Yes, weep! I bid thee weep this grave beside;— No thoughts of vanity—no looks of pride…

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Death of Archbishop Crolly

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 4 January 1848 · page 2

BY an English letter of August 15th, we regret to learn the death of the Most Rev. Dr. Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland. This distinguished…

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British Extracts. Death of the Right Reverend Dr. Griffiths

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 8 January 1848 · page 3

It is our painful duty to communicate to our readers a piece of intelligence which, however mournful,will hardly take them by surprise—the death of Dr. Griffiths, the bishop of the London…

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Funeral Service for Louis Bonaparte, Ex-king of Holland. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) Paris, September 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1848 · page 8

AFTER I left St. Leu, yesterday, the funeral ceremonies in honour of the ex-King of Holland and of his son were brought to a close. The relations and friends of the illustrious…

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Select Poetry. the Death of the Beautiful

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 17 February 1848 · page 4

She faded like a dream away, One of those bright and blessed things That oe'r the sleeping senses play, And fan them with their Heaven-hued wings:…

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Death of the Archbishop of York. (From the Morning Chronicle, November 8.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1848 · page 3

IT is our painful duty to announce the decease of his Grace the Archbishop of York. The melaneholy event took place on Friday, at the palace, Bishopthorpe. His Grace was in his usual good health up to within a very…

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Death of Dr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. (From the Evening Mail, November 10.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 February 1848 · page 3

IT is with no ordinary regret that we have received intelligence of the premature and most unlooked for death of Dr. Felix Mendelsshon Bartholdy. He expired at Leipsic, on…

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Father Ventura's Funeral Oration Upon O'connell

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1848 · page 4

''Simon Magnus, qui liberavit gentum suam a perditione; et in diebus suis corroboravit templum."—Eccles. ch. 50, v. 1, et 1, 5. Thus the day, to which we had looked forward as…

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Father Ventura's Funeral Oration Upon O'connell

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 6 April 1848 · page 4

"Simon Magnus, qui liberavit gentum suam a perditione ; et in diebus suis corroboravit templum." —Eccles. ch. 50, v. 1, et I, 5. When the paroxyism of the fever excited by…

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Father Ventura's Funeral Oration Upon O'connell

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 8 April 1848 · page 4

"Simon Magnus, qui liberavit gentum auam a perditioue ; et in diebus suis corroboravit templum," —Eccles, ch. 50, v, 1, et 1, 5. In prescribing, however, a passive resistance to…

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Father Ventura's Funeral Oration Upon O'connell

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 11 April 1848 · page 4

"Simon Magnus, qui liberavit gentum suam a perditione; et in diebus suis corroboravit templum." —Eccles, ch. 50, v. 1, et 1, 5. I have, up to this point, related the means by…

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Father Ventura's Funeral Oration Upon O'conneli

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 13 April 1848 · page 4

"Simon Magnus, qul liberavit gentem suam a perditione; et in dIebus suis corroboravit templum." —Eccles. ch. 50, v. 1; et 1, 5. But when a man like O'Connell, with respect to…

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The Late Mr. Liston

The Australian · Friday 21 April 1848 · page 4

THE Following succinct and interesting account from Mr. Cadge, the Houes surgeon of this distinguished man, at University College Hospital, and who…

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The Death of O'connell. (From the Nation.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1848 · page 3

WE copy from the Lancet to-day a paper read at the Sociétè Medicale d' Emulation of Lyons, by Dr. Lacour, the physician chosen by Dr. Miley to accompany O'Connell from that city,…

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Death of the [?]Arl of Har[?]owby. (Abridged from the Times, December 28.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 April 1848 · page 4

AFTER three days' illness Lord Harrowby, the father of the late respected member for Liverpool, Lord Sandon; died on, Sunday, the 26th instant, at the family seat, Sandon-hall,…

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Facetle. Fancy-ful Lines on the Death of Liston, the Celebrated Surgeon

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 29 April 1848 · page 3

Oh, Death! inexorable tyrant grim, Whose bitter broth we are all doomed to sup, Why did'st thou thus unkindly cut down HIM, Who such a dabster was at cutting up.?…

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Death of Sir Maurice O'connell

The Australian · Friday 26 May 1848 · page 3

WITH profound regret, we record the death of the gallant veteran, who for 10 many years has commanded the forces in this distant portion of the British Empire. Beloved by all classes of…

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Death of Sir Maurice O'connell

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 27 May 1848 · page 2

IT is with much pain that we announce the decease of Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice O'Connell, who expired at his residence, Tarmona, on Thursday, after a short but…

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Death of Lieutenant-general Sir Maurice Chas. O'connell' K.c.h

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 May 1848 · page 2

WITH unfeigned regret we have to record the decease of this much respected and gallant veteran, (a near relative of the immortal Dan,) who for some weeks past…

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SIR M. O'connell's Funeral. (From a Government Gazette Extraordinary.) Colonial Secretary's Office, Sydney, 27th May, 1848

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 29 May 1848 · page 2

(His Excellency the Governor, with feelings of deep regret, announces to the public, the decease, on the 25th instant, of Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell,…

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