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 iv
... mind when we are estimating the character of the illustrious subject of the present memoir . HENRY GRATTAN was born in Dublin on the 3d of July , 1746 . His father , James Grattan , was for many years Recorder of Dublin , and ...
... mind when we are estimating the character of the illustrious subject of the present memoir . HENRY GRATTAN was born in Dublin on the 3d of July , 1746 . His father , James Grattan , was for many years Recorder of Dublin , and ...
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... mind and genial character . His intellect was highly cultivated , and he was held in deserved esteem by his contemporaries . Indeed , few families in Ireland could boast of a greater union of talent , learning , and virtue , than were ...
... mind and genial character . His intellect was highly cultivated , and he was held in deserved esteem by his contemporaries . Indeed , few families in Ireland could boast of a greater union of talent , learning , and virtue , than were ...
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... mind and style of Grattan . Its effects on the development of his genius were decidedly injurious . The young orator was naturally given to emotion ; his cast of mind was melancholy , poetical , and rather vague ; he was besides eager ...
... mind and style of Grattan . Its effects on the development of his genius were decidedly injurious . The young orator was naturally given to emotion ; his cast of mind was melancholy , poetical , and rather vague ; he was besides eager ...
Side viii
... mind would have partaken of whatever was most exciting in its nature , and accordingly politics soon aroused him . His glowing intensity of mind found an object for admiration in Lord Chatham , who was the idol of Grattan . The command ...
... mind would have partaken of whatever was most exciting in its nature , and accordingly politics soon aroused him . His glowing intensity of mind found an object for admiration in Lord Chatham , who was the idol of Grattan . The command ...
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... mind of keen social perception , was little suited for the rapturous expression of exquisite emotion . Instead of choos- ing a model congenial with his own mind , he selected one adapted for a totally different nature , and soon became ...
... mind of keen social perception , was little suited for the rapturous expression of exquisite emotion . Instead of choos- ing a model congenial with his own mind , he selected one adapted for a totally different nature , and soon became ...
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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...