Essays on IrelandGill, 1888 - 313 oldal |
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Act of Union amount anti-Irish bigotry bishops Britain Castlereagh Catholic emancipation century clergy commercial condition confiscations Constitution of 1782 corruption crimes declared Dublin Earl Earl Fitzwilliam ecclesiastical England English Government English Parliament established estates Exchequer existence force friends Gladstone Grattan grievance hatred Henry Henry Grattan Home Rule honour hostility House of Commons Imperial income increase industry interest intolerable Irish Catholics Irish Constitution Irish debt Irish House Irish nation Irish Parliament Irish revenue Irishmen Jacobite King kingdom land landlords Laracor laws Lecky legislative union Legislature liberty Lord Lord Castlereagh manufactures measure ment murder Napier native oppression Parlia Parliamentary patriotic penal pensions persons Pitt Pitt's political pretext principle proportion prosperity Protestant Protestantism rebellion religion religious rent repeal result says sectarian sentiment speech spirit statute Stella Swift taxation taxes tenantry Thirty-nine Articles tion tithe tithe rent-charge trade Viceroy wealth whole words
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96. oldal - And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel ? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
263. oldal - Lecky has not chosen to deal with events in chronological order, nor does he present the details of personal, party, or military affaire. The work is rather an attempt 'to disengage from the great mass of facts those which relate to the permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate some of the more enduring features of national life...
246. oldal - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
82. oldal - Going to England is a very good thing, if it were not attended with an ugly circumstance of returning to Ireland.
95. oldal - The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE and OUGHT to be as FREE a people as your brethren in England.
14. oldal - Ireland to be bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the parliament of that kingdom, in all cases whatever...
206. oldal - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
98. oldal - I cannot but highly esteem those gentlemen of Ireland, who, with all the disadvantages of being exiles and strangers, have been able to distinguish themselves by . their valour and conduct in so many parts of Europe, I think, above all other nations...
72. oldal - Commons urged the magistrates on to greater activity in enforcing the law, and it resolved ' that the saying or hearing of Mass by persons who had not taken the oath of abjuration tended to advance the interests of the Pretender,' and again, ' that the prosecuting and informing against Papists was an honourable service to the Government.
206. oldal - ... and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall Outlast the organ which conveyed it; and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him. " I shall move you, that the king's most excellent majesty, and the lords and commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.