The Select Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To which is Added His Letter on Union, with a Commentary on His Career and CharacterH.G. Bohn, 1847 - 471 sider |
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Side xxxviii
... excluded many ; but thus it has been always in the history of Ireland . She has suffered much from external misgovernment , and scarcely less from her own internal discord . When her statesmen have tri- umphed over the Imperial rulers ...
... excluded many ; but thus it has been always in the history of Ireland . She has suffered much from external misgovernment , and scarcely less from her own internal discord . When her statesmen have tri- umphed over the Imperial rulers ...
Side 61
... excluded : to be ground as we have been by the British nation , bound by her parliament , plundered by her crown , threatened by her enemies , insulted with her protection , while we returned DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS . 61.
... excluded : to be ground as we have been by the British nation , bound by her parliament , plundered by her crown , threatened by her enemies , insulted with her protection , while we returned DECLARATION OF IRISH RIGHTS . 61.
Side 66
... exclude Catholics from natural liberty and the common rights of men , we are not a people : we may triumph over them , but other nations will triumph over us . If you love the Roman Catholic , you may be sure of a return from him ; but ...
... exclude Catholics from natural liberty and the common rights of men , we are not a people : we may triumph over them , but other nations will triumph over us . If you love the Roman Catholic , you may be sure of a return from him ; but ...
Side 67
... excludes the English legislature : and thus , the title of the King precludes the claim of the Parliament : there is , then , no covenant regarding the legislature of England , except one , which is against her are we then to search for ...
... excludes the English legislature : and thus , the title of the King precludes the claim of the Parliament : there is , then , no covenant regarding the legislature of England , except one , which is against her are we then to search for ...
Side 69
... exclude expressly the Parliament of England , and settle the case , even though they stood alone ; add to these their wonted claim and their protest ; there is also the act of faculties in the reign of Henry the Eighth , which was as ...
... exclude expressly the Parliament of England , and settle the case , even though they stood alone ; add to these their wonted claim and their protest ; there is also the act of faculties in the reign of Henry the Eighth , which was as ...
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Side 448 - A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age, and the Treasury trembled at the name of Pitt through all her classes of venality Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her.
Side 429 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Side 447 - Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite ; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity. Wonderful were the means...
Side 257 - ... the consent of the people, given by themselves or their deputies. And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies, to be from time to time chosen by themselves.
Side xxviii - 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.
Side 82 - I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation. I have spoken on the subject of your liberty so often, that I have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what...
Side 185 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people...
Side 448 - ... not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflagration of Tully, it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of the spheres.
Side 299 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Side 376 - I do swear, That I will defend to the utmost of my Power the Settlement of Property within this Realm, as established by the Laws : And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm...