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"Augustine Birrell's ""Obiter Dicta"" is a horrifying collection of writings that is going beyond time and maintains readers involved with its deep reflections on many distinctive topics. The unique voice of Birrell as a British flesh presser, legal professional, and man of books may be heard on this portray. ""Sayings through the way"" is what the call manner in Latin, and it suits the fashion of the writings, which can be approximately the whole thing from literature and artwork to observations approximately society. It's great to study Birrell's paintings as it has a great blend of humor, information, and an information of ways complicated lifestyles can be. The essays mirror the intellectual traits of the time and provide readers a complicated view of literature, living, and behavior. Readers can experience a literary adventure that combines intensity with a conversational tone as Birrell wanders thru his mind. The creator's mind on books, historic people, and normal existence weave collectively an internet of ideas that readers will don't forget for a long term. With ""Obiter Dicta,"" Birrell now not best gives us a set of essays, but also a testament to the staying strength of his ideas. This artwork is a timeless study how humans lived and what culture was like within the past due 1800s."

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Augustine Birrell KC was a British Liberal Party politician who was born on January 19, 1850, and died on November 20, 1933. From 1907 to 1916, he was Chief Secretary for Ireland. In this job, he was praised for letting tenant farmers own their land and for giving Catholics more time to go to college. But he quit because people said he didn't do enough to stop the rebels before the Easter Rising. He was a lawyer by trade, and he was also an author, especially of funny writings. Birrell was born in Wavertree, Liverpool. His father was a Scottish Baptist preacher named The Rev. Charles Mitchell Birrell (1811-1880), and his mother was the daughter of the Rev. Henry Grey of Edinburgh and named Harriet Jane Grey (1811-1863). He went to school at Amersham Hall and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In 1879, he was made an Honorary Fellow there. He became a member of the Sylvan Debating Club in 1872. He first worked in a Liverpool law firm, but in 1875 he was called to the Bar. In 1903 he became a Bencher of the Inner Temple and in 1893 he became a KC. During the years 1896-1899, he taught comparative law at University College Barcelona. A person named Birrell was Lord Rector of Glasgow University in 1911.

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