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... Protestant associations were formed with the object of getting it repealed , amongst them " The Protestant Association of London , " of which Lord George Gordon , third son of the Duke of Gordon , was elected pre- sident . In June ...
... Protestant associations were formed with the object of getting it repealed , amongst them " The Protestant Association of London , " of which Lord George Gordon , third son of the Duke of Gordon , was elected pre- sident . In June ...
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... Protestant , & right to have and enjoy such lands , tenements , and here- ditaments ; " and also so much of the said Act as " disabled papists , or persons professing the popish religion to pur . chase any manors , lands , profits out ...
... Protestant , & right to have and enjoy such lands , tenements , and here- ditaments ; " and also so much of the said Act as " disabled papists , or persons professing the popish religion to pur . chase any manors , lands , profits out ...
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... Protestant to give it any very active opposition . O'Connell always felt proud of the fact that his first appearance as a public man was in opposition to the Union ; and that the speech which he made on the occasion contained the ...
... Protestant to give it any very active opposition . O'Connell always felt proud of the fact that his first appearance as a public man was in opposition to the Union ; and that the speech which he made on the occasion contained the ...
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... Protestants of Ireland , who have already liberated him , than lay his country at the feet of foreigners . ( This sentiment met with much and marked approbation . ) With regard to the Union , so much had been said - so much had been ...
... Protestants of Ireland , who have already liberated him , than lay his country at the feet of foreigners . ( This sentiment met with much and marked approbation . ) With regard to the Union , so much had been said - so much had been ...
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... Protestants joined him and his fellow - Catholics in battling for Emancipation . He often said , in the spirit of a sentiment contained in the above speech , that he would postpone the Catholic claims , if his Protestant fellow ...
... Protestants joined him and his fellow - Catholics in battling for Emancipation . He often said , in the spirit of a sentiment contained in the above speech , that he would postpone the Catholic claims , if his Protestant fellow ...
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Page 243 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 142 - We tread the land that bore us. Her green flag glitters o'er us, The friends we've tried Are by our side, And the foe we hate before us.
Page 270 - I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Page 213 - You will consider whether the removal of those disabilities can be effected consistently with the full and permanent security of our establishments in Church and State, with the maintenance of the reformed Religion established by law, and of the rights and privileges of the Bishops and of the Clergy of this Realm, and .of the Churches committed to their charge.
Page 113 - ... of his Irish subjects, have made the deepest impression on his mind ; and that he looks forward to the period when he shall revisit them with the strongest feelings of satisfaction. His Majesty trusts that, in the mean time, not only the spirit of loyal union, which now so generally exists, will remain unabated and unimpaired ; but that every cause of irritation will be avoided and discountenanced ; mutual forbearance and good-will observed and encouraged ; and...
Page 15 - ... let every man who feels with me proclaim, that if the alternative were offered him of Union, or the re-enactment of the penal code in all its pristine horrors, that he would prefer without hesitation the latter as the lesser and more sufferable evil ; that he would rather confide in the justice of his brethren the Protestants of Ireland, who have already liberated...
Page 273 - In the former interview it had been represented that, after much conversation twice with his Ministers or such as had come down, he had said, ' Go on;' and upon the latter of those two occasions, after many hours' fatigue, and exhausted by the fatigue of conversation, he had said, ' Go on.' He now produced two papers which he represented as copies of what he had written to them, in which he assents to their proceeding and going on with the bill, adding certainly in each, as he read them, very strong...
Page 272 - At the close of the interview the King took leave of us with great composure and great kindness, gave to each of us a salute on each cheek, and accepted our resignation of office, frequently expressing his sincere regret at the necessity which compelled us to retire from his service.
Page 159 - Industry and commercial enterprise are extending themselves in that part of the United Kingdom. It is therefore the more to be regretted that associations should exist in Ireland which have adopted proceedings irreconcilable with the spirit of the constitution, and calculated, by exciting alarm, and by exasperating animosities, to endanger the peace of society, and to retard the course of national improvement.
Page 199 - You will be told I am not qualified to be elected : the assertion, my friends, is untrue. — I am qualified to be elected, and to be your representative. It is true that, as a Catholic, I cannot, and of course never will, take the oaths at present prescribed to members of parliament ; but the authority which created...