The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan: In the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament, Volume 4 |
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... enemies to shake that connection , and to effect their entire separation , we fully approve , and cordially embrace , the principle of incorporating Great Britain and Ireland into one kingdom , under Your Majesty's auspicious government ...
... enemies to shake that connection , and to effect their entire separation , we fully approve , and cordially embrace , the principle of incorporating Great Britain and Ireland into one kingdom , under Your Majesty's auspicious government ...
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... enemies to government ; the violent and inflamed spirit of the Catholics ; the disappointed ambition of those who would ruin the country because they could not be the rulers of it ; " behold the character he gives of the enemies of the ...
... enemies to government ; the violent and inflamed spirit of the Catholics ; the disappointed ambition of those who would ruin the country because they could not be the rulers of it ; " behold the character he gives of the enemies of the ...
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... enemies of the Union , all the friends of the Parliamentary constitution of 1782 , that great body of the Irish he abuses them with a petulence more befitting one of his Irish ministers , than an exalted cha- racter , and infinitely ...
... enemies of the Union , all the friends of the Parliamentary constitution of 1782 , that great body of the Irish he abuses them with a petulence more befitting one of his Irish ministers , than an exalted cha- racter , and infinitely ...
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... enemies to the king ; thus has he acquitted the Catholics and convicted the laws . This is not extraordinary , it is the natural progress of a blind and a great polemic ; such characters , they begin with a fatal candour , and then ...
... enemies to the king ; thus has he acquitted the Catholics and convicted the laws . This is not extraordinary , it is the natural progress of a blind and a great polemic ; such characters , they begin with a fatal candour , and then ...
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... enemy , when you gain a conquest over yourselves . But I will for a moment accede to the member's statement against facts and history : what is his inference ? during one hundred years of the pro- scriptive system , the state has been ...
... enemy , when you gain a conquest over yourselves . But I will for a moment accede to the member's statement against facts and history : what is his inference ? during one hundred years of the pro- scriptive system , the state has been ...
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Page 21 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
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