The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan: In the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament, Volume 4

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Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822 - Great Britain - 468 pages

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Page 338 - 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 308 - ... without any hope of any such dispensation from any person or authority whatsoever; or without thinking that I am, or can be, acquitted before God or man, or absolved of this declaration, or any part thereof, although the Pope, or any other person or persons, or power whatsoever, should dispense with, or annul the same, or declare that it was null and void from the beginning.
Page 403 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 41 - ... entitled, by descent or creation, to an hereditary seat in the House of Lords of the united kingdom...
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.
Page 307 - I do swear that I will defend to the utmost of my power the settlement of property within this realm as established by the laws : And I do hereby disclaim, disavow and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by law within this realm...
Page 338 - An Act for the further limitation of the Crown, and better securing the rights and liberties of the Subject...
Page 307 - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present Church Establishment; as settled by law within this realm ; and I do solemnly swear, that I never will exercise any privilege to which I am or may become entitled, to disturb or weaken the Protestant religion, or Protestant Government, in the United Kingdom...
Page 305 - Has the Pope, or Cardinals, or any body of men, or any individual of the Church of Rome, any civil authority, power, jurisdiction, or pre-eminence whatsoever, within the realm of England ? 2.
Page 41 - Kingdom, then and in that case it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, to create one peer...

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