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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... tion among the people , a fire which animates the nation to its own redemption - a sacred en- thusiasm , unconveyed in the language of anti- quity , and which only belongs to the natural con- fidence of freedom . Forty thousand men in ...
... tion among the people , a fire which animates the nation to its own redemption - a sacred en- thusiasm , unconveyed in the language of anti- quity , and which only belongs to the natural con- fidence of freedom . Forty thousand men in ...
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... tion of all trade , is wanting . The superstruc- ture is left without a base - you have commerce without a full trade , and a senate without a par- liament . When I found a prohibition upon glass and other commodities , when I found an ...
... tion of all trade , is wanting . The superstruc- ture is left without a base - you have commerce without a full trade , and a senate without a par- liament . When I found a prohibition upon glass and other commodities , when I found an ...
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... tion - the spirit of independence was banished →→→ the fears of parliament made it grant , in a strain of trembling servility , whatever was demanded . Men of overgrown fortunes became the very job- bers of corruption ; they voted an ...
... tion - the spirit of independence was banished →→→ the fears of parliament made it grant , in a strain of trembling servility , whatever was demanded . Men of overgrown fortunes became the very job- bers of corruption ; they voted an ...
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... tion sent to Corsica , and the relief afforded Hol- land ; and the other , their unform hatred of an administration that brought destruction on the British dominions . If England is a tyrant , it is Ireland made her so by obeying The ...
... tion sent to Corsica , and the relief afforded Hol- land ; and the other , their unform hatred of an administration that brought destruction on the British dominions . If England is a tyrant , it is Ireland made her so by obeying The ...
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... tion of the present opportunity -- by the affection you owe posterity - by all the ties which constitute the well being of a people , assert and maintain the liberties of your country . I have no design , I ask for no favour , but to ...
... tion of the present opportunity -- by the affection you owe posterity - by all the ties which constitute the well being of a people , assert and maintain the liberties of your country . I have no design , I ask for no favour , but to ...
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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...