The History of Catholic Emancipation and the Progress of the Catholic Church in the British Isles: (chiefly in England) from 1771 to 1820, Volume 1 |
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Page 256 - Papists had no rights, inasmuch as " the law did not presume a Papist to exist in the kingdom ; nor could they so much as breathe there without the connivance of Government.
Page 78 - But, Gentlemen, it is possible you may not know that the people of that persuasion in Ireland amount at least to sixteen or seventeen hundred thousand souls. I do not at all exaggerate the number. A nation to be persecuted...
Page 63 - Catholic was reminded from the bench that ' the laws did not presume a Papist to exist in the kingdom, nor could they breathe without the connivance of the Government.
Page 94 - I speak of (like some amongst us who would disparage the best friends of their country) resolved to make the king either violate his principles of toleration, or incur the odium of protecting Papists. They therefore brought in this bill, and made it purposely wicked and absurd that it might be rejected. The then...
Page 84 - They have been taxed to their ruin at the pleasure of necessitous and profligate relations, and according to the measure of their necessity and profligacy. Examples of this are many and affecting. Some of them are known by a friend who stands near me in this hall. It is but six or seven years since a clergyman of the name of Malony, a man of morals, neither guilty nor accused of anything noxious to the state, was condemned to perpetual imprisonment for exercising the functions of his religion...
Page 93 - ... acquiring any other by any industry, donation or charity ; but was rendered a foreigner in his native land, only because he retained the religion, along with the property, handed down to him from those who had been the old inhabitants of that land before him. Does any one who hears me...
Page 109 - I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men ; for kings and all that are in high place ; that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and gravity.
Page 307 - Mussulmen over the unhappy members of the Oriental Church. It is a great deal to suppose that even the present Castle would nominate bishops for the Roman Church of Ireland with a religious regard lor its welfare. Perhaps they cannot, perhaps they dare not do it.
Page 311 - Agreeably to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church, these regulations can have no effect without the sanction of the Holy See...
Page 83 - Had the legislature chosen, instead of returning their declarations of duty with correspondent good-will, to drive them to despair, there is a country at their very door, to which they would be invited ; a country in all respects as good as ours, and with the finest cities in the world ready built to receive them.