Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 3H. Colburn, 1841 - Catholic emancipation |
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... authority , you will not suppose that I shall subscribe to the resolutions , to which you have lately acceded . A member of one House of Par- liament , and attached to the privileges of both , and to the Parliamentary constitution of ...
... authority , you will not suppose that I shall subscribe to the resolutions , to which you have lately acceded . A member of one House of Par- liament , and attached to the privileges of both , and to the Parliamentary constitution of ...
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... authority of Parliament , and the rights of Ireland , he viewed the displeasure of his fellow- citizens with respectful indifference ; he had done them too much service to be their sycophant . His object was the Parliamentary ...
... authority of Parliament , and the rights of Ireland , he viewed the displeasure of his fellow- citizens with respectful indifference ; he had done them too much service to be their sycophant . His object was the Parliamentary ...
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... authorities having in- stilled a contrary opinion in Ireland , something further might be necessary ; spoke most respectfully of Flood's abilities , and the Recorder's integrity , and David Walshe's accuracy and precision ; concluded ...
... authorities having in- stilled a contrary opinion in Ireland , something further might be necessary ; spoke most respectfully of Flood's abilities , and the Recorder's integrity , and David Walshe's accuracy and precision ; concluded ...
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... authority : they invited them to interfere against the fencible regiments , to call for a convention , to overawe the Parliament , having got freedom and trade from the preceding one , and having obtained a new Parliament , chosen on ...
... authority : they invited them to interfere against the fencible regiments , to call for a convention , to overawe the Parliament , having got freedom and trade from the preceding one , and having obtained a new Parliament , chosen on ...
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... authority to settle the constitution of Ireland . This was tan- tamount to an expression of satisfaction , and was a recognition of the validity of the settlement made in the preceding year . The reply to the address was judicious and ...
... authority to settle the constitution of Ireland . This was tan- tamount to an expression of satisfaction , and was a recognition of the validity of the settlement made in the preceding year . The reply to the address was judicious and ...
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Page 181 - That it is now necessary to declare, that to report any opinion, or pretended opinion of his Majesty upon any bill or other proceeding depending in either House of Parliament, with a view to influence the votes of the members, is a high crime and misdemeanour, derogatory to the honour of the Crown, a breach of the fundamental privileges of Parliament, and subversive of the Constitution of this country.
Page 283 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 419 - I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion.
Page 353 - The Prince of Wales learns from Mr. Pitt's letter that the proceedings in parliament are now in a train which enables Mr. Pitt, according to the intimation in his former...
Page 352 - Servants. I beg leave to add that their Ideas are formed on the supposition that His Majesty's Illness is only temporary, and may be of no long duration.
Page 503 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America ; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom of 'coffee and...
Page 355 - The prince, however, holding as he does, that it is an undoubted and fundamental principle of this constitution, that the powers and prerogatives of the crown are vested there as a trust for the benefit of the people ; and that they are sacred...
Page 514 - ... thanks to Heaven, I am not a beggar!" "No kindred and no friends!" repeated the old man. "No father — no brother — no wife — no sister!'' "None! No one to care whether I live or die," answered the stranger, with a mixture of pride and sadness in his voice. " But, as the song has it : " ' I care for nobody— no, not I, For nobody cares for me...
Page 43 - I laid me down upon a bank, Bewailing my sad fate, That doomed me thus the slave of love And cruel Molly's hate; How can she break the honest heart That wears her in its core? Ah!
Page 502 - ... an Act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled " An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Tenures in capite and by Knights Service, and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon His Majesty in lieu thereof...