A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners - James Joyce [228]
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In his best interest.
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Nine strokes on each hand-the maximum allowed.
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Gold or silver vessel in which the host is displayed during the part of the Mass known as the Eucharist (Communion).
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The part of the Catholic Mass in which the priest shows the eucharistic host to those in attendance and blesses them with it.
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This bit of school lore is almost certainly false, since Napoleon had renounced the Church.
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The sea (Latin).
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The text describes the chain of command within the Jesuit order.
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The Society of Jesus, an order within the Catholic Church founded by Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556); its members are known especially for their learning.
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That is, hold out your hands for disciplining; the Latin word for this phrase, pande, gives the pandybat and pandying their names.
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Quotation from William Shakespeare’s Macbeth (act 5, scene 5).
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Period of preparation for Easter, beginning with Ash Wednesday and comprising the forty weekdays before Easter.
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One of the first to join Ignatius Loyola in the Society of Jesus.
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Eighteenth-century general of the Jesuits.
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Kostka, Gonzaga, and Berchmans, all Jesuits, were patrons of the sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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He purchased Clongowes for the Jesuits in 1813.
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Felt-like fabric.
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Hard knots produced in tree branches by boring insects.
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In cricket, long throws to return batted balls.
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Smoking tobacco.
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Three popular late-eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Irish songs.
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Seaside community south of Dublin, between the city and Dun Laoghaire.
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Guide words indicating the first or last word in the text of a page.
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Large port city in County Munster.
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Stillorgan, Goatstown, Dundrum, and Sandyford are villages in and along the Dublin mountains, south of the city center.
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Community 3 miles south of Blackrock.
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Beautiful civic building on the north side of the Liffey, the river running west to east through downtown Dublin, dividing it into south and north.
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Commercial stretches of road alongside the river.
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Coated in thick varnish, in the Japanese manner.
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Term of endearment.
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A 14-pound bag of coal; in the British system of measurement, a stone is 14 pounds.
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Neighborhood at the southern edge of Dublin.
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Paper-wrapped party favors.
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ln this Irish tradition, men and women have one song for which they are known and which they are prepared to perform at gatherings.
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Bound composition notebook.
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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Latin for “for the greater glory of God”: the Jesuit motto.
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In the draft version of the novel, published as Stephen Hero after Joyce’s death, Stephen’s love interest is named Emma Clery.
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George Gordon (1788-1824), leading poet and charismatic figure in British Romantic poetry.
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Notices of debts owed.
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Laus Deo Semper, Latin for “praise to God always.”
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Brotherhood of Catholic laymen, founded in Waterford, in County Munster, in 1802 by Edmund Ignatius Rice; the Christian Brothers ran inexpensive day schools that emphasized practical learning.
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The Dublin Corporation, the city’s governing body.
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The week beginning on Pentecost, the seventh Sunday after Easter.
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Vessel containing the eucharistic host.
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The penultimate year of studies.
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Performed an Islamic form of low bow.
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Slang for a session of praying the rosary, a devotion whose progress is marked on a string of beads.
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A prayer, part of the traditional Catholic Mass, in which one confesses having sinned (the word is Latin for “I confess”) and asks God’s forgiveness.
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Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), an author whose best-known works include Japbet in Search of a Father (1836) and The Children of the New Forest (1847).
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), poet laureate (1850-1892); author of In Memoriam (1850) and Idylls ofthe King (1859).
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“Crib,” or study aid.
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Fit of anger.
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Allusion to the work of the Gaelic League (established in 1893), which sought to revive