Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, 4. ciltH. Colburn, 1842 |
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Sayfa 9
... persons of the grossest ignorance ; that they have shown that ignorance particularly in their late resolution on behalf of the rights of the subject , and that they have discovered , on this occasion , as great a perversion of sense as ...
... persons of the grossest ignorance ; that they have shown that ignorance particularly in their late resolution on behalf of the rights of the subject , and that they have discovered , on this occasion , as great a perversion of sense as ...
Sayfa 31
... person quite incom- petent to hold the reins of power , and seemed more fitted to guide a chariot than to govern a country . His mind was of an inferior grade ; it belonged not to the Court - not to the drawing- room - not even to the ...
... person quite incom- petent to hold the reins of power , and seemed more fitted to guide a chariot than to govern a country . His mind was of an inferior grade ; it belonged not to the Court - not to the drawing- room - not even to the ...
Sayfa 33
... to stop it , they ordered a reward of five guineas for the conviction of each of the first twenty persons so arming . + See Appendix , II . Nc . 2 . VOL . IV . D various stages in both Houses without opposition , and without.
... to stop it , they ordered a reward of five guineas for the conviction of each of the first twenty persons so arming . + See Appendix , II . Nc . 2 . VOL . IV . D various stages in both Houses without opposition , and without.
Sayfa 37
... persons , enemies of the state . Whether any Government had a right to enact such laws may be question- able ; for the omnipotence of Parliament is an absurdity . Parliament being created by society , and society by the Deity , both are ...
... persons , enemies of the state . Whether any Government had a right to enact such laws may be question- able ; for the omnipotence of Parliament is an absurdity . Parliament being created by society , and society by the Deity , both are ...
Sayfa 45
... persons who signed the said address , being ignorant of several collateral and antecedent circumstances , could not possibly apprehend the real drift and object thereof , and consequently that the said address was surreptitiously ...
... persons who signed the said address , being ignorant of several collateral and antecedent circumstances , could not possibly apprehend the real drift and object thereof , and consequently that the said address was surreptitiously ...
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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.