Essays on IrelandGill, 1888 - 313 |
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... period : - " The various commercial confraternities of Great Britain never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland . One by one each of our national industries was either strangled in its birth , or handed ...
... period : - " The various commercial confraternities of Great Britain never for a moment relaxed their relentless grip on the trades of Ireland . One by one each of our national industries was either strangled in its birth , or handed ...
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... period when the Irish Parlia- ment was held in English fetters . Let us now see the results produced by constitutional freedom . The fol- lowing testimonies are familiarly known in Ireland ; but as they will probably be new to English ...
... period when the Irish Parlia- ment was held in English fetters . Let us now see the results produced by constitutional freedom . The fol- lowing testimonies are familiarly known in Ireland ; but as they will probably be new to English ...
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... period . ' The witnesses whose testimony I have cited were enemies of the Union ; and it is therefore desirable that we should see to what extent their statements are corroborated by the friends of that measure . First comes its author ...
... period . ' The witnesses whose testimony I have cited were enemies of the Union ; and it is therefore desirable that we should see to what extent their statements are corroborated by the friends of that measure . First comes its author ...
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... period . " Mr. Edward Cooke , Under - Secretary at the Castle , was one of Castlereagh's agents of corruption . He pub- lished a Unionist pamphlet , entitled , " Arguments for and against a Union Considered , " in which , at page 52 ...
... period . " Mr. Edward Cooke , Under - Secretary at the Castle , was one of Castlereagh's agents of corruption . He pub- lished a Unionist pamphlet , entitled , " Arguments for and against a Union Considered , " in which , at page 52 ...
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... period in question , observes that , notwithstanding its grave faults , it had redeeming features : - 66 " An assembly of resident landlords , ” he says , can scarcely fail to take real interest in the material welfare of their country ...
... period in question , observes that , notwithstanding its grave faults , it had redeeming features : - 66 " An assembly of resident landlords , ” he says , can scarcely fail to take real interest in the material welfare of their country ...
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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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Strona 96 - 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.
Strona 263 - 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...
Strona 246 - 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.
Strona 82 - Going to England is a very good thing, if it were not attended with an ugly circumstance of returning to Ireland.
Strona 95 - 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.
Strona 14 - Ireland to be bound only by laws enacted by his Majesty and the parliament of that kingdom, in all cases whatever...
Strona 206 - 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.
Strona 98 - 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...
Strona 72 - 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.
Strona 206 - ... 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.