Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1841 - Politicians |
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... liberty , by the emaciating cruelty of barbarous laws , and we felt in our own bondage the natural returns of our own tyranny . Fortunately we have discovered the error ; it was your policy , and my decided opinion , to adopt the ...
... liberty , by the emaciating cruelty of barbarous laws , and we felt in our own bondage the natural returns of our own tyranny . Fortunately we have discovered the error ; it was your policy , and my decided opinion , to adopt the ...
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... liberty . He ever cringed to power ; -a slave to the court , an enemy to the people , all his judgments leaned against liberty ; -he never gained a point for the freedom of the country , and opposed many ; -his idea and his expression ...
... liberty . He ever cringed to power ; -a slave to the court , an enemy to the people , all his judgments leaned against liberty ; -he never gained a point for the freedom of the country , and opposed many ; -his idea and his expression ...
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... liberty as before they had of bondage . But this is not a singular case : nations , like individuals , require long experience before they acquire wisdom . In England , Charles I. was beheaded because he invaded the liberties of the ...
... liberty as before they had of bondage . But this is not a singular case : nations , like individuals , require long experience before they acquire wisdom . In England , Charles I. was beheaded because he invaded the liberties of the ...
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... liberty ; but he was thwarted by subordinates , assailed by violence , overwhelmed with abuse , and impeded in the praiseworthy efforts he made to extend equal rights and equal protection to all classes of the popula- tion of Ireland ...
... liberty ; but he was thwarted by subordinates , assailed by violence , overwhelmed with abuse , and impeded in the praiseworthy efforts he made to extend equal rights and equal protection to all classes of the popula- tion of Ireland ...
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... liberty ; -he was the first in his county who applied to government for arms for the Volunteers . But on the Catholic subject , his mind was narrow ; he considered it as a mere question of power , and the Protestants being the lesser ...
... liberty ; -he was the first in his county who applied to government for arms for the Volunteers . But on the Catholic subject , his mind was narrow ; he considered it as a mere question of power , and the Protestants being the lesser ...
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