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 iii
... nature of that society in which he existed , and the influence of the passions of his age . A political leader is not like the poet or philosopher , who lead isolated lives , remote from the passions of their con- temporaries . The ...
... nature of that society in which he existed , and the influence of the passions of his age . A political leader is not like the poet or philosopher , who lead isolated lives , remote from the passions of their con- temporaries . The ...
Side vii
... nature of a passion . He was also fitful - rather wayward - and subject to abrupt transition of feelings . On the whole the poetical element largely entered into his composition . But never was there an age less favourable to the ...
... nature of a passion . He was also fitful - rather wayward - and subject to abrupt transition of feelings . On the whole the poetical element largely entered into his composition . But never was there an age less favourable to the ...
Side viii
... natural beauties , to engage the cultivated mind and impassioned nature of young Grattan . He seems to have intensely enjoyed the liberty of wandering by himself through the forest , on the moonlight nights ; now startling a herd of ...
... natural beauties , to engage the cultivated mind and impassioned nature of young Grattan . He seems to have intensely enjoyed the liberty of wandering by himself through the forest , on the moonlight nights ; now startling a herd of ...
Side ix
... nature , and soon became disgusted with his attempts . He says of the productions of his muse- " that they are the efforts of her mind rather than the nature of it . " But , in truth , the greatest poetical genius has often been ...
... nature , and soon became disgusted with his attempts . He says of the productions of his muse- " that they are the efforts of her mind rather than the nature of it . " But , in truth , the greatest poetical genius has often been ...
Side x
... nature too vehement and not sufficiently mercurial ; his delivery disagreeable from a redundancy of uncouth gestures ; and his voice without agreeable modulation . Indeed , from his acting , no one would have augured the presence of an ...
... nature too vehement and not sufficiently mercurial ; his delivery disagreeable from a redundancy of uncouth gestures ; and his voice without agreeable modulation . Indeed , from his acting , no one would have augured the presence of an ...
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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...