Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 1H. Colburn, 1839 - Politicians |
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Page 15
... wish to answer ; many of them they would not answer ; and some they did answer favourably to the rights of Ireland . How visibly does the justice of Providence appear in this sad history of persecution ! for every act of violence was ...
... wish to answer ; many of them they would not answer ; and some they did answer favourably to the rights of Ireland . How visibly does the justice of Providence appear in this sad history of persecution ! for every act of violence was ...
Page 50
... wish you had the same pride not to be outdone in it . Your com- plaints remain to me a mystery ; to be in a place where contemplation may visit , if you choose to court her - a place where love is not entirely a stranger — where you ...
... wish you had the same pride not to be outdone in it . Your com- plaints remain to me a mystery ; to be in a place where contemplation may visit , if you choose to court her - a place where love is not entirely a stranger — where you ...
Page 69
... wish , in every station of life in which I have acted , to prefer the milder method of conciliation and union , to the harsher one of punishment and separation , I shall with great willingness undertake the task , however difficult it ...
... wish , in every station of life in which I have acted , to prefer the milder method of conciliation and union , to the harsher one of punishment and separation , I shall with great willingness undertake the task , however difficult it ...
Page 78
... wish I could pretend to ascribe the true motive of it to you . It certainly may be occasioned by emissaries from France , though I think I should have discovered it if that had been the case . The better kind of people , the tradesmen ...
... wish I could pretend to ascribe the true motive of it to you . It certainly may be occasioned by emissaries from France , though I think I should have discovered it if that had been the case . The better kind of people , the tradesmen ...
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... would have deceived any individual or any party ; he never would have sacrificed a public object or a public principle . He was possessed of the rarest and greatest ac- ་ --- quirement a public man can wish for a stern.
... would have deceived any individual or any party ; he never would have sacrificed a public object or a public principle . He was possessed of the rarest and greatest ac- ་ --- quirement a public man can wish for a stern.
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