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
... passing hour - may be said to consist the art of all great and genuine statesmanship , as distinguished from the charlatanism , which , grovelling in the present , is sure to meet with the con- temptuous oblivion of future ages . It ...
... passing hour - may be said to consist the art of all great and genuine statesmanship , as distinguished from the charlatanism , which , grovelling in the present , is sure to meet with the con- temptuous oblivion of future ages . It ...
Side xvii
... passed upon his memory . But Lord Charlemont was not a statesman in any sense . He had not even the secondary accomplishments required by one who aspires to manage great affairs . He was a miserable speaker , and was a weak , though ...
... passed upon his memory . But Lord Charlemont was not a statesman in any sense . He had not even the secondary accomplishments required by one who aspires to manage great affairs . He was a miserable speaker , and was a weak , though ...
Side xxviii
... passed unanimously : - " Resolved , 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 unconstitu- tional , illegal , and a grievance . ” The next resolution ...
... passed unanimously : - " Resolved , 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 unconstitu- tional , illegal , and a grievance . ” The next resolution ...
Side xxxiv
... passed a special act positively re- nouncing all claim to legislate for Ireland . It should have been an object of supreme importance to have avoided vexatious questions and idle discussions , and to have united all Irish parties in a ...
... passed a special act positively re- nouncing all claim to legislate for Ireland . It should have been an object of supreme importance to have avoided vexatious questions and idle discussions , and to have united all Irish parties in a ...
Side xxxviii
... passed , and well may it be asked , " cui bono ? " when we remember that in seventeen years after the Union was carried with such ease ! The course of conduct pursued by Grattan at this period of his life is very open to political ...
... passed , and well may it be asked , " cui bono ? " when we remember that in seventeen years after the Union was carried with such ease ! The course of conduct pursued by Grattan at this period of his life is very open to political ...
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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...