The History of Ireland, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time: Embracing Also a Statistical and Geographical Account of that Kingdom ; Forming Together a Complete View of Its Past and Present State, Under Its Political, Civil, Literary, and Commercial Relations, Volume 2 |
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... measures of the last thirty years , gives the following history of this famous and operative resolution : t 1 " To counteract Mr. Grattan's amendment the ministerial speakers introduced much general expression as to the trade of Ireland ...
... measures of the last thirty years , gives the following history of this famous and operative resolution : t 1 " To counteract Mr. Grattan's amendment the ministerial speakers introduced much general expression as to the trade of Ireland ...
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... measure was likely to produce there . 4 The progress of an enslaved people in their attainment of liberty is slow but regular . Some- times , as in France , a sudden explosion over . throws existing institutions without substituting any ...
... measure was likely to produce there . 4 The progress of an enslaved people in their attainment of liberty is slow but regular . Some- times , as in France , a sudden explosion over . throws existing institutions without substituting any ...
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... measure as a boon resumable at plea- sure ; and consequently a very general apprehension was entertained that it would be , at some time or other , resumed ; perhaps at that very moment when its operative influence began to exhibit ...
... measure as a boon resumable at plea- sure ; and consequently a very general apprehension was entertained that it would be , at some time or other , resumed ; perhaps at that very moment when its operative influence began to exhibit ...
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... measures , and distractions attend her councils . Parliament is the only spring to convey the native voice of the people ; never did this or any other country behold a senate possessed of so much public confidence . There is an ardent ...
... measures , and distractions attend her councils . Parliament is the only spring to convey the native voice of the people ; never did this or any other country behold a senate possessed of so much public confidence . There is an ardent ...
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... measures eminently unpopular . One was the mutiny bill , for the punishment of mutiny and desertion in the army ... measure was for the imposition of a duty on refined sugars imported into Ireland , for the purpose of encou → raging at ...
... measures eminently unpopular . One was the mutiny bill , for the punishment of mutiny and desertion in the army ... measure was for the imposition of a duty on refined sugars imported into Ireland , for the purpose of encou → raging at ...
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Page 185 - 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 477 - England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland, shall be deemed and taken to be an essential and fundamental part of the Union...
Page 477 - Ireland ; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland...
Page 387 - Scotland — a nation cast in the happy medium between the spiritless acquiescence of submissive poverty and the sturdy credulity of pampered wealth — cool and ardent — adventurous and persevering— winging her eagle flight against the blaze of every science, with an eye that never winks and a wing that never tires...
Page 388 - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
Page 473 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by...
Page 459 - Ireland shall, upon the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 472 - Union, provided that no new creation of any such peers shall take place after the Union, until three of the peerages of Ireland which shall have been existing at the time of the Union...
Page 429 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 464 - ... as circumstances may appear to the Parliament of the United Kingdom to require; provided that all writs of error and appeals depending at the time of the union or hereafter to be brought, and which might now be finally decided by the House of Lords of either kingdom...