Birth
Frederick Irby was born on 18 April 1779, the second son of Frederick, 2nd Baron Boston and his wife Christiana (née Methuen).
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“The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man’s resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”
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“It suggested, too, that the same experience always gives birth to the same sort of belief or religion.”
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