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... persons , alas ! fewer and fewer . Besides , a generation has sprung up since he rendered up his soul to God in Genoa the Superb , far from the land of his birth - of his labours of his love : that generation ought to know the history ...
... persons , alas ! fewer and fewer . Besides , a generation has sprung up since he rendered up his soul to God in Genoa the Superb , far from the land of his birth - of his labours of his love : that generation ought to know the history ...
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... persons professing the popish religion , and keeping school , or taking upon themselves the education , or government , or boarding of youth within the realm or the dominions thereunto belonging , to perpetual imprisonment ; " and also ...
... persons professing the popish religion , and keeping school , or taking upon themselves the education , or government , or boarding of youth within the realm or the dominions thereunto belonging , to perpetual imprisonment ; " and also ...
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... person who taught Daniel O'Connell his letters ; and the story of his achievement is not without a moral to those who have the instruction of children . Happening upon one of his rounds in quest of charitable assistance , to visit ...
... person who taught Daniel O'Connell his letters ; and the story of his achievement is not without a moral to those who have the instruction of children . Happening upon one of his rounds in quest of charitable assistance , to visit ...
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... person elected , was to have the right of saying VETO to that election , that is , I FORBID that name being sent to Rome . And this process could be repeated any number of times until the King , or , in other words , the government of ...
... person elected , was to have the right of saying VETO to that election , that is , I FORBID that name being sent to Rome . And this process could be repeated any number of times until the King , or , in other words , the government of ...
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... not indeed on his sacred person , but on his mystical body , that is , His CHURCH , which was ever more dear to him than even his life . Does not St. Paul Going back a little on O'Connell's life , we find 40 THE CENTENARY.
... not indeed on his sacred person , but on his mystical body , that is , His CHURCH , which was ever more dear to him than even his life . Does not St. Paul Going back a little on O'Connell's life , we find 40 THE CENTENARY.
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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...