Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volume 4H. Colburn, 1849 |
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... Constitution , with respect to the metropolis itself , I have touched on before . The people were borne down , the magistracy depraved , the law was relaxed , and public tranquillity was at an end . These mischiefs were more than enough ...
... Constitution , with respect to the metropolis itself , I have touched on before . The people were borne down , the magistracy depraved , the law was relaxed , and public tranquillity was at an end . These mischiefs were more than enough ...
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... constitution and considera- tion , is due to her wisdom in holding such assertions , and the assertions thereof , as men fallible and suspicious . The author of the paper is made to declare , that the rejecting of Alderman Howison , and ...
... constitution and considera- tion , is due to her wisdom in holding such assertions , and the assertions thereof , as men fallible and suspicious . The author of the paper is made to declare , that the rejecting of Alderman Howison , and ...
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... constitution against the attacks of the present administration , who invaded both , and who were pronounced to have done so by Parliament . We associated when the privileges of both Houses had been questioned . When the Minister was ...
... constitution against the attacks of the present administration , who invaded both , and who were pronounced to have done so by Parliament . We associated when the privileges of both Houses had been questioned . When the Minister was ...
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... constitution , last for ever . - Volunteers of Ireland ; three cheers . - The Whig Club of Ireland . - Duke of Port- land , and Whigs of England . - Unceasing opposition to the system of a pensioned Magistracy.— Majority of the Commons ...
... constitution , last for ever . - Volunteers of Ireland ; three cheers . - The Whig Club of Ireland . - Duke of Port- land , and Whigs of England . - Unceasing opposition to the system of a pensioned Magistracy.— Majority of the Commons ...
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... Constitution , were not considered sufficient secu- rities for the peace and prosperity of the French nation . Greater sacrifices were demanded , and other immolations were required ; and that light which arose so bright at its ...
... Constitution , were not considered sufficient secu- rities for the peace and prosperity of the French nation . Greater sacrifices were demanded , and other immolations were required ; and that light which arose so bright at its ...
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Page 274 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 7 - I address, or benefit to those on whose behalf I have the honour to be heard. I am aware, my lords, that truth is to be sought only by slow and painful progress; I know also that error is in its nature flippant and compendious ; it hops with airy and fastidious levity over proofs and arguments, and perches upon assertion, which it calls conclusion.
Page 278 - In the awful presence of God, I, AB do voluntarily declare, that I will persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and that I will also persevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland. I do further declare, that neither hopes, fears, rewards...
Page 68 - I also declare, that it is not an article of the catholic faith; neither am I thereby required to believe or profess that the pope is infallible, or that I am bound to obey any order in its own nature immoral, though the pope or any ecclesiastical power should issue or direct such...
Page 88 - The bill was opposed by Dr. Duigenan, in a speech remarkable for length, its violence, and its hostility to the Catholics; comprising a history as well as a libel upon Ireland. His principle was this : " A Protestant King, a Protestant Parliament, a Protestant Hierarchy, Protestant electors and Government, the bench of justice, the army and the revenue, through all their branches and detail, Protestants.
Page 233 - The only crime which the wretched objects of this ruthless persecution are charged...
Page 320 - ... you whether you know of any language which could have adequately described the idea of mercy denied where it ought to have been granted, or of any phrase vigorous enough to convey the indignation which an honest man would have felt upon such a subject ? Let me beg of you for a moment to suppose that any one of you had been the writer of this very severe expostulation with the Viceroy, and that you had been the witness of the whole progress of this never-to-be-forgotten catastrophe.
Page 161 - ... and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent : — there was an antidote — a juror's oath — but even that adamantine chain, that bound the integrity of man to the throne of eternal justice, is solved and melted in...
Page 321 - ... the miserable plaits of his phraseology, nor placed his patches and feathers with that correctness of millinery which became so exalted a person. If you agree with him, gentlemen of the jury; if you think that the man who ventures, at the hazard of his own life, to rescue from the deep the drowned honour of his country, must not presume upon the guilty familiarity of plucking it by the locks, I have no more to say.
Page 352 - The very disgraceful frequency of courts-martial, and the many complaints of irregularities in the conduct of the troops in this kingdom, having too unfortunately proved the Army to be in a state of licentiousness which must render it formidable to every one but the enemy, the Commander-in-Chief thinks it necessary to demand from all Generals commanding districts and brigades, as well as commanding officers of regiments, that they exert...