| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...claim. The corporation tell us, that they will not be compelled by any authority whatever, " to abandon that political situation, which " their forefathers won with their swords, and which they have " resolved with their lives and fortunes to maintain." Are WE the seditious men, that would... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - 1811 - 590 pages
...said, that " the Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled, by any authority whatever, to abandon that political situation, which their forefathers...hazards to maintain, it gave a definition of protestant ascendancy in these words: " A protestant king of Ireland, a protestant parliament, a protestant hierarchy,... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1811 - 584 pages
...authority whatever, to abandon that political situation, which their forefathers won with their «words, and which is therefore their birthright:" and to this...the constituted authorities, it solemnly pledged the live* and fortunes of its members. That no doubt might be entertained as to the extent of what it was... | |
| Henry Grattan - Catholic emancipation - 1842 - 490 pages
...claim. The Corporation tell us that they will not be compelled by any authority whatever, " to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won with their swords, and which they have resolved with their lives and fortunes to maintain." Are we the seditious men that would... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1849 - 494 pages
...claim. The Corporation tell us that they will not be compelled by any authority whatever, " to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won with their swords, and which they have resolved with their lives and fortunes to maintain." Are we the seditious men that would... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1887 - 644 pages
...declared that 'the Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled by any authority whatever to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won...swords, and which is therefore their birthright.' They defined the Protestant ascendency which they pledged themselves to maintain as 'a Protestant King... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1891 - 640 pages
...declared that ' the Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled bg any authoritg whatever to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won with their swords, and which is therefore their birthright.i They defined the Protestant ascendency which they pledged themselves to maintain as '... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1892 - 596 pages
...declared that ' the Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled by any authority whatever to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won...swords, and which is therefore their birthright.' They defined the Protestant ascendency which they pledged themselves to maintain as ' a Protestant... | |
| Thomas Addis Emmet - Revolutionaries - 1915 - 760 pages
...says, that The Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled, by any authority whatever, to abandon that political situation which their forefathers won...their swords, and which is therefore their birthright. 90 Protestant Ascendancy And to this threatened resistance against the constituted authorities, it... | |
| John Robertson - History - 1995 - 394 pages
...Catholics], that the Protestants of Ireland would not be compelled by any authority whatever to abandon that political situation, which their forefathers...their swords, and which is therefore their birthright, or to surrender their religion at the footstool of Popery.106 Here Molyneux's ancient constitution,... | |
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