The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan: In the Irish, and in the Imperial Parliament, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822 - 468 Seiten |
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... measure , the natural result of shabby mutiny and abortive rebellion . This is not the first time I have had occasion to express my concern at certain excesses of some part of our fellow- subjects . See the fruit of those excesses ! see ...
... measure , the natural result of shabby mutiny and abortive rebellion . This is not the first time I have had occasion to express my concern at certain excesses of some part of our fellow- subjects . See the fruit of those excesses ! see ...
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... measure of their severity should not be a measure for the legislation of the House ; if it should , it would be bad in principle , and worse in practice . Another clause of the bill made it felony to write , print , publish , send , or ...
... measure of their severity should not be a measure for the legislation of the House ; if it should , it would be bad in principle , and worse in practice . Another clause of the bill made it felony to write , print , publish , send , or ...
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... measure ; to consider that they have not so much as cause for suspicion of them ; to consider , if they were a Popish peasantry , they were actuated by no Popish motive ; to consider , that public thanks have been returned to the ...
... measure ; to consider that they have not so much as cause for suspicion of them ; to consider , if they were a Popish peasantry , they were actuated by no Popish motive ; to consider , that public thanks have been returned to the ...
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... measure , which Major Doyle termed to be replete with persecution and bigotry : he alluded to a pamphlet published by a reverend prelate , which , he conceived , was a gross misrepresentation of the state of Ireland , a libel on her ...
... measure , which Major Doyle termed to be replete with persecution and bigotry : he alluded to a pamphlet published by a reverend prelate , which , he conceived , was a gross misrepresentation of the state of Ireland , a libel on her ...
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... measure founded on the excesses of a part of the kingdom , and to be a very strong measure of coercion for those partial excesses , not a penal code for the nation ; but a temporary occasional act of terror applicable only to a ...
... measure founded on the excesses of a part of the kingdom , and to be a very strong measure of coercion for those partial excesses , not a penal code for the nation ; but a temporary occasional act of terror applicable only to a ...
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Seite 344 - To prepare such an assembly as this, and endeavour to set up the declared abettors of his own will, for the true representatives of the people, and the law-makers of the society, is certainly as great a breach of trust, and as perfect a declaration of a design to subvert the government, as is possible to be met with.
Seite 55 - Beware of covetousness ; seek not what ye shall eat, but seek the kingdom of God." " Give alms, provide yourselves with bags that wax not old ; a treasure in heaven which faileth not." This does not look like a right in the 'Christian priesthood to the tenth of the goods of the comrannity exempted from the poor's dividend. " Distribute unto the poor, and seek treasure in heaven." " Take care that your hearts be not charged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life.
Seite 133 - Majesty's resuming the personal eyerc'se of his royal 'authority, may then render it only necessary for me to repeat those sentiments of gratitude- and affection for the loyal and generous people of Ireland which 1 feel indelibly imorinted on my heart.
Seite 344 - I answer such revolutions happen not upon every little mismanagement in public affairs. Great mistakes in the ruling part, many wrong and inconvenient laws, and all the slips of human frailty will be borne by the people without mutiny or murmur.
Seite 364 - An ascendancy of that form raises to my mind a little greasy emblem of stall-fed theology, imported from some foreign land, with the graces of a lady's maid, the dignity of a side-table, the temperance of a larder, its sobriety the dregs of a patron's bottle, and its wisdom the dregs of a patron's understanding, brought hither to devour, to degrade, and to defame.
Seite 344 - Thus to regulate candidates and electors, and new-model the ways of election, what is it but to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security?
Seite 120 - ... require, it is expedient that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, being resident within the realm, shall be empowered to exercise and administer the royal authority, according to the laws and constitution of Great Britain, in the name and on...
Seite 56 - Christianity declined ; then indeed the right of tithe was advanced, and advanced into a style that damned it. The preachers who advanced the doctrine placed all Christian' virtue in the payment of tithe. They said that the Christian religion, as we say the Protestant religion , depended on it. They said, that those who paid not their tithes , would be found guilty before God; and if they did not give; the tenth, that God would reduce the country to a tenth. Blasphemous preachers. ...gross ignorance...
Seite 344 - For the people, having reserved to themselves the choice of their representatives as the fence to their properties, could do it for no other end but that they might always be freely chosen and, so chosen, freely act and advise as the necessity of the commonwealth and the public good should upon examination and mature debate be judged to require.
Seite 344 - ... threats, promises, or otherwise won to his designs and employs them to bring in such who have promised beforehand what to vote and what to enact.