Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Band 4H. Colburn, 1842 |
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... honour of returning . ' " However , the sense of shame in the majority was too high to admit so milky a composition , and at length , after much irregular scuffling , the following was adopted as an answer : " The Leinster Bar return ...
... honour of returning . ' " However , the sense of shame in the majority was too high to admit so milky a composition , and at length , after much irregular scuffling , the following was adopted as an answer : " The Leinster Bar return ...
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... honour . † In England also , bigotry seemed on the decline , and a spirit of liberality had arisen . In the month of March , 1791 , Mr. Mitford brought forward his Bill to relieve Roman Catholic Dissenters , open- ing to them the ...
... honour . † In England also , bigotry seemed on the decline , and a spirit of liberality had arisen . In the month of March , 1791 , Mr. Mitford brought forward his Bill to relieve Roman Catholic Dissenters , open- ing to them the ...
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... honour of the lady to the care of the ravisher ? There was a time when the vault of liberty could hardly contain the flight of your pinion ; some of you went forth like a giant rejoicing in his strength ; and you stand like elves at the ...
... honour of the lady to the care of the ravisher ? There was a time when the vault of liberty could hardly contain the flight of your pinion ; some of you went forth like a giant rejoicing in his strength ; and you stand like elves at the ...
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... honour to inform you , that the Catholics of Ireland have delegated us to present their humble petition to our most gracious Sovereign . We request to know at what time we may be allowed the honour of waiting on you with a copy of the ...
... honour to inform you , that the Catholics of Ireland have delegated us to present their humble petition to our most gracious Sovereign . We request to know at what time we may be allowed the honour of waiting on you with a copy of the ...
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abuses afterwards appeared Armagh arms Beresford Berwick bill borough British Burke Catholic question Chancellor CHAP character committee conduct constitution Council court Crown Curran DEAR declaration defend Dublin Duigenan Duke of Portland EDMUND BURKE election emancipation England favour Forbes France French friends give Government Grattan HENRY GRATTAN honour hope House of Commons insurrection Irish Parliament Keogh King King's kingdom labour land Leinster letter liberty Lord Camden Lord Carhampton Lord Charlemont Lord Clare Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Moira Lord Thurlow Lord-lieutenant M'CAN Majesty Majesty's measures ment military mind minister motion nation object occasion opinion opposed opposition Parlia party persons petition Pitt political Ponsonby present principles proceedings proposed Protestant Protestant ascendancy reform religion representation resolutions respect Roman Catholics sent sentiments Sir John Parnell speech spirit Tinnehinch tion United Irishmen violent vote Whig Club wish
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Seite 125 - When that nameless thing which has been lately set up in France was described as " the most stupendous and glorious edifice of liberty which had been erected on the foundation of human integrity in any time or country...
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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 the breath that issues from the informer's mouth. Conscience swings from her mooring, and the appalled and affrighted juror consults his own safety in the surrender of the victim : — Et qus sibi quisque timebat, Urdus iu miseri...
Seite 88 - A Protestant King of Ireland, A Protestant Parliament, A Protestant Hierarchy. Protestant Electors and Government, The Benches of Justice, The Army and the Revenue, Through all their Branches and Details, Protestant: And this System Supported by a Connection with the Protestant Realm of Britain.
Seite 161 - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of...
Seite 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.
Seite 68 - 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.
Seite 461 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and that all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.
Seite iii - And you, brave COBHAM ! to the latest breath, Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death : Such in those moments as in all the past ; " Oh, save my country, Heaven !