Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, 4. ciltH. Colburn, 1842 |
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Sayfa 6
... mean , illiberal , and un- principled minion of authority , induced by his profligacy to undertake , and bound by his avarice and vanity to per- severe . He would probably have replied to the most unanswerable arguments by some curt ...
... mean , illiberal , and un- principled minion of authority , induced by his profligacy to undertake , and bound by his avarice and vanity to per- severe . He would probably have replied to the most unanswerable arguments by some curt ...
Sayfa 7
... mean to lecture the council . " Mr. Curran .— " I mean , my lords , to speak to the case of my clients , and to avail myself of every topic of defence which I conceive applicable to the case . I am not speak- ing to a dry point of law ...
... mean to lecture the council . " Mr. Curran .— " I mean , my lords , to speak to the case of my clients , and to avail myself of every topic of defence which I conceive applicable to the case . I am not speak- ing to a dry point of law ...
Sayfa 58
... mean them , or intend either injury or insult : with him abuse had be- come a habit , -almost his dialect . " If he call rogue or rascal from a garret , He means you no more mischief than a parrot . " On this occasion he behaved ...
... mean them , or intend either injury or insult : with him abuse had be- come a habit , -almost his dialect . " If he call rogue or rascal from a garret , He means you no more mischief than a parrot . " On this occasion he behaved ...
Sayfa 60
... mean a Union . Let me suppose the minister , as he has often proposed corrupt terms to the Protestant , should propose crafty ones to the Catholic , and should say , You are three - fourths of the people excluded from the blessings of ...
... mean a Union . Let me suppose the minister , as he has often proposed corrupt terms to the Protestant , should propose crafty ones to the Catholic , and should say , You are three - fourths of the people excluded from the blessings of ...
Sayfa 61
... mean time , subject to those intermitting fevers and panics which shake by fits your public zeal , and enfeeble all your deter- minations . I sit down reasserting my sentiments , which are , that the removal of all disabilities is ...
... mean time , subject to those intermitting fevers and panics which shake by fits your public zeal , and enfeeble all your deter- minations . I sit down reasserting my sentiments , which are , that the removal of all disabilities is ...
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abuses afterwards appeared Armagh arms Beresford bill borough British Burke Catholic question Chancellor CHAP character committee conduct connexion constitution Council court Crown Curran DEAR declaration defend Dublin Duigenan Duke of Portland effect election emancipation England favour feel France French friends give Government HENRY GRATTAN honour hope House of Commons insurrection Irish Parliament jury justice King kingdom labour land letter liberty Lord Camden Lord Carhampton Lord Castlereagh Lord Charlemont Lord Clare Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Fitzwilliam Lord Moira Lord Thurlow Lord-lieutenant M'CAN magistrates Majesty Majesty's measures ment military mind minister Moira motion nation never object occasion opinion opposed opposition Parlia party persons petition Pitt Ponsonby present principles privileges proceedings proposed Protestant Protestant ascendancy received reform rejected religion representation resolutions respect Roman Catholics sent sentiments speech spirit Tinnehinch tion Union United Irishmen vote Whig Club wish
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Sayfa 274 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 352 - The very disgraceful frequency of courts-martial, and the many complaints of irregularities in the conduct of the troops in this kingdom, having too unfortunately proved the Army to be in a state of licentiousness which must render it formidable to every one but the enemy, the Commander-in-Chief thinks it necessary...
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 320 - ... you whether you know of any language which could have adequately described the idea of mercy denied where it ought to have been granted, or of any phrase vigorous enough to convey the indignation which an honest man would have felt upon such a subject ? Let me beg of you for a moment to suppose that any one of you had been the writer of this very severe expostulation with the Viceroy, and that you had been the witness of the whole progress of this never-to-be-forgotten catastrophe.
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 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...
Sayfa 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.
Sayfa 461 - That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and that all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal.