WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:39:47 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Roche, Boyle – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Roche, Boyle -- Speech in the Irish Parliament https://wist.info/roche-boyle/3300/ https://wist.info/roche-boyle/3300/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=3300 All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.


Boyle Roche (1743-1807) Irish politician
Speech in the Irish Parliament ]]> https://wist.info/roche-boyle/3300/feed/ 0 3300 Roche, Boyle -- Speech, Irish Parliament https://wist.info/roche-boyle/5820/ https://wist.info/roche-boyle/5820/#respond Thu, 01 May 2008 10:29:02 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5820 Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?


Boyle Roche (1743-1807) Irish politician
Speech, Irish Parliament

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