| Ireland - 1805 - 428 pages
...liberty and independence — or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression of the miseries of my countrymen ; the proclamation of...home, or subjection or humiliation or treachery from abroad— I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor, far the same reason that I would resit... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence ; or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen....countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad ; I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor for the same... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence ; or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen....proclamation of the provisional government, speaks lor our views ; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home,... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 354 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence—or that I could become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen;...proclamation of the Provisional Government speaks for my views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection,... | |
| John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 348 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence— or that I could become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen;...proclamation of the Provisional Government speaks for iny views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or... | |
| Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence—or that I could become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen...proclamation of the provisional government speaks for my views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection,... | |
| Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that 1 could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen. The proclamation ot the provincial government speaks for my views ; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance... | |
| Orators - 1834 - 602 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence ; or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen....countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad ; I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor, for the... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...cause but that of my country's liberty and independence'; or that I could become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen'....proclamation of the provisional government speaks my views'; from which no inference can be tortured to countenance barbarity or debasement at home',... | |
| Member of the bar - English orations - 1836 - 560 pages
...that of my country's liberty and independence ; or that I could have become the pliant minion of 3a power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen....countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad ; I would not have submitted to a foreign oppressor, for the... | |
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