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" An Irishman may be called par excellence the bone-breaker amongst men, the homo ossifragus of the human family; and in the indulgence of this their natural propensity there is a total and systematic disregard of fair play : there is no such thing known... "
Paddiana: Or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past - Page 219
by Adam Blenkinsop, Sir William Henry Gregory - 1847
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 81

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1847 - 580 pages
...— let us indulge ourselves in a little more on that subject from one of the later chapters : — ' An Irishman may be called par excellence the bone-breaker...the homo ossifragus of the human family ; and in the indulgeuce of this their natural propensity there is a total and systematic disregard of fair play...
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The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic ...

William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...to rights. An Irishman may be called far (¿aliena the bone-breaker amongst men, the homo otfifragta of the human family ; and in the indulgence of this...total and systematic disregard of fair play : there U no such thing known, whether at a race or a fight. Let an uulor túnate stranger — aman not known...
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