Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone ...Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Theobald Wolfe Tone Gales & Seaton, 1826 - Ireland |
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... leaving the house such a scene of horror and confusion , as can hardly be imagined . With regard to myself , it is impossible to conceive what I suffered . As it was early in the night , I hap- pened to be in the court - yard , where I ...
... leaving the house such a scene of horror and confusion , as can hardly be imagined . With regard to myself , it is impossible to conceive what I suffered . As it was early in the night , I hap- pened to be in the court - yard , where I ...
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... leaving my wife and daughter with my father , who treated them , during my absence , with great affection . After a dangerous passage to Liverpool , wherein we ran some risk of being lost , I arrived in London , in January , 1787 , and ...
... leaving my wife and daughter with my father , who treated them , during my absence , with great affection . After a dangerous passage to Liverpool , wherein we ran some risk of being lost , I arrived in London , in January , 1787 , and ...
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... leave my wife and child to the mercy of her family , who might , I hoped , be kinder to her when I was removed . My brother combatted this des- perate resolution by every argument in his power ; but , at length , when he saw me ...
... leave my wife and child to the mercy of her family , who might , I hoped , be kinder to her when I was removed . My brother combatted this des- perate resolution by every argument in his power ; but , at length , when he saw me ...
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... leaving it barely possible that something might be done in the busi- ness , though very unlikely ; and so indeed it proved , for , shortly after , a kind of peace , called a convention , was agreed upon between Spain and England , on ...
... leaving it barely possible that something might be done in the busi- ness , though very unlikely ; and so indeed it proved , for , shortly after , a kind of peace , called a convention , was agreed upon between Spain and England , on ...
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... leaving behind it a puny offspring of about a dozen essays on different subjects , all , as may be sup- posed , tolerable , but not one of any distinguished excellence . I am satisfied any one of the members , by devoting a week of his ...
... leaving behind it a puny offspring of about a dozen essays on different subjects , all , as may be sup- posed , tolerable , but not one of any distinguished excellence . I am satisfied any one of the members , by devoting a week of his ...
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Page 432 - 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 432 - I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...
Page 433 - I further declare, that I do not believe that any sin whatsoever committed by me can be forgiven at the mere will of any pope, or of any priest, or of any person or persons whatsoever; but...
Page 433 - God, are previous and indispensable requisites to establish a wellfounded expectation of forgiveness; and that any person who receives absolution without these previous requisites, so far from obtaining thereby any remission of his sins, incurs the additional...
Page 51 - To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 432 - 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 order; but, on the contrary, I hold that it would be sinful in me to pay any respect or obedience thereto...
Page 358 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a Christian is?
Page 315 - Irish judges on a recent occasion, the practice of the court is the law of the court, and the law of the court is the law of the land.
Page 448 - ... your royal attention, we are deprived of the great palladium of the constitution, trial by our peers, independent of the manifest injustice of our property being taxed in assessments by a body from which we are formally excluded. We avoid a further enumeration of inferior grievances : but, may it please your Majesty, there remains one incapacity, which your loyal subjects the Catholics of Ireland feel with most poignant anguish of mind, as being the badge of unmerited disgrace and ignominy, and...
Page 54 - ... form of government, to which I was led by a hatred of England, so deeply rooted in my nature, that it was rather an instinct than a principle. I left to others, better qualified for the inquiry, the investigation and merits of the different forms of government, and I contented myself with labouring on my own system, which was luckily in perfect coincidence as to its operation with that of those men who viewed the question on a broader and juster scale than I did at the time I mention.