Speeches: To which is Added His Letter on the UnionJ. Duffy, 1868 - 468 pages |
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... politics between the days of Swift and those of Floo -between the times of Grattan and those of O'Connell . When ... political leader is not like the poet or philosopher , who lead isolated lives , remote from the passions of their ...
... politics between the days of Swift and those of Floo -between the times of Grattan and those of O'Connell . When ... political leader is not like the poet or philosopher , who lead isolated lives , remote from the passions of their ...
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... political passion and national ambition , than as the statesman expounding her wants , and providing for her ... politics soon aroused him . His glowing intensity of mind found an object for admiration in Lord Chatham , who was the idol ...
... political passion and national ambition , than as the statesman expounding her wants , and providing for her ... politics soon aroused him . His glowing intensity of mind found an object for admiration in Lord Chatham , who was the idol ...
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... political foes ; and accordingly the sycophant Duigenan launched into vituperation of Lucas . But Grattan , to Duigenan's surprise , espoused the cause of the popular champion with considerable warinth . High words ensued , and Robert ...
... political foes ; and accordingly the sycophant Duigenan launched into vituperation of Lucas . But Grattan , to Duigenan's surprise , espoused the cause of the popular champion with considerable warinth . High words ensued , and Robert ...
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... political sympathy . In this brief memoir the writer cannot diverge into a general narrative of the Irish politics of the last century ; yet , it is hardly possible to understand the career of Grattan without comprehending the state of ...
... political sympathy . In this brief memoir the writer cannot diverge into a general narrative of the Irish politics of the last century ; yet , it is hardly possible to understand the career of Grattan without comprehending the state of ...
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... political standard some of the first commoners in the country . He gave to his principles the advantage of aristocratic support . He proposed broad measures , in which all the public took interest , and labouring to make parliament tell ...
... political standard some of the first commoners in the country . He gave to his principles the advantage of aristocratic support . He proposed broad measures , in which all the public took interest , and labouring to make parliament tell ...
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Page 51 - ... freedom, am I to hear of faction. I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags; he may be naked, he shall not be in...
Page 259 - I defy the honourable gentleman ; I defy the government ; I defy their whole phalanx : let them come forth. I tell the ministers I will neither give them quarter nor take it. I am here to lay the shattered remains of my constitution on the floor of this House, in defence of the liberties of my country.
Page 365 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment; as settled by law within this realm ; and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 365 - I do swear, That I will defend to the utmost of my Power the Settlement of Property within this Realm, as established by the Laws : And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm...
Page 438 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.
Page 365 - An Act for the further limitation of the crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the subject, is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants ; hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person claiming or pretending a right to the crown of...
Page 439 - ... not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflagration of Tully, it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of the spheres.
Page 419 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 51 - I do see the time is at hand, the spirit is gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men should apostatize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him.
Page 369 - June 22, rose in the house of commons ; and after a most eloquent and energetic speech, moved " that this house will early in the next session of parliament, take into its most serious consideration the state of the laws affecting his majesty's Roman catholic subjects in Great Britain and Ireland ; with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjustment, as may be conducive to the peace and strength of the united kingdom ; to the stability of the protestant establishment, and to the general satisfaction...