History of the Irish People, Volume 2J. Heywood, 1887 - Ireland |
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Page 114 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall extend to the Loan or Forbearance of any Money upon Security of any Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any Estate or Interest therein.
Page 20 - Englishmen ; and pronounces them, in any particular which could enter his minute enumeration of the circumstances by which fellow-citizenship is created, in race, identity and religion, to be aliens ; — to be aliens in race, to be aliens in country, to be aliens in religion ! Aliens ! good God ! waa Arthur, Duke of Wellington, in the House of Lords, — and did he not start up and exclaim, " HOLD ! I HAVE SEEN THE ALIENS DO THEIR DUTY ! " The Duke of Wellington is not a man of an excitable temperament.
Page 20 - I differ, but who bears, I know, a generous heart in an intrepid breast — tell me, for you must needs remember — on that...
Page 58 - I foresee the necessity that may be imposed upon us at an early period of considering whether there is not that well-grounded apprehension of actual scarcity that justifies and compels the adoption of every means of relief which the exercise of the prerogative or legislation might afford. " I have no confidence in such remedies as the prohibition of exports, or the stoppage of the distilleries. The removal of impediments to import is the only effectual remedy.
Page 20 - The battles, sieges, fortunes that he has passed' ought to have come back upon him. He ought to have remembered that, from the earliest achievement in which he displayed that military genius which has placed him foremost in the annals of modern warfare, down to that last and...
Page 160 - Nevertheless, a danger, in its ultimate results scarcely less disastrous than pestilence and famine, and which now engages your excellency's anxious attention, distracts that country. A portion of -its population is attempting to sever tlte constitutional tie which unites it to Great Britain in that bond which has favoured the power and prosperity of both.
Page 20 - The Duke of Wellington is not a man of excitable temperament; his mind is of a cast too martial to be easily moved ; but, notwithstanding his habitual inflexibility, I cannot help thinking that when he heard his...
Page 20 - ... modern warfare, down to that last and surpassing combat which has made his name imperishable — from Assaye to Waterloo — the Irish soldiers, with whom your armies are filled, were the inseparable auxiliaries to the glory with which his unparalleled successes have been crowned. Whose were the arms that drove your bayonets at Vimiera through the phalanxes that never reeled in the shock of war before? What desperate valor climbed the steeps and filled the moats at Badajos?
Page 20 - France was levelled with a precision of the most deadly science — when her legions, incited by the voice and inspired by the example of their mighty leader, rushed again and. again to the onset — tell me if for an instant, when to hesitate for an instant was to be lost, the
Page 182 - There being, since the rebellion first broke out, unto the time of the cessation made September 15, 1643, which was not full two years after, above 300,000 British and Protestants cruelly murdered in cold blood, destroyed some other way, or expelled out of their habitations...