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 xviii
... wishes could not be granted because the British Parliament was supreme . The Protestant gentry of Ireland were ambitious of a nobler theatre of exertion , where they might obtain power and fame - but they were told that their Irish ...
... wishes could not be granted because the British Parliament was supreme . The Protestant gentry of Ireland were ambitious of a nobler theatre of exertion , where they might obtain power and fame - but they were told that their Irish ...
Side xxviii
... wish that the British power should diminish ( except in Ireland ) , for then Europe would have been at the mercy of France . He wished that Irish society should be moulded into the same form as that existing in England , but that its ...
... wish that the British power should diminish ( except in Ireland ) , for then Europe would have been at the mercy of France . He wished that Irish society should be moulded into the same form as that existing in England , but that its ...
Side xxxviii
... wish of Ireland to remain in the Imperial connexion . The odious personalities between Grattan and Flood led to a general rupture in the national party , and all these evils were compensated by no real advantage . Mr. Flood was ...
... wish of Ireland to remain in the Imperial connexion . The odious personalities between Grattan and Flood led to a general rupture in the national party , and all these evils were compensated by no real advantage . Mr. Flood was ...
Side xliii
... wishes for Reform ; and there were several secret enemies to the popular party amongst its ranks . For want of controlling power - in short , for want of a judicious and vigorous leader - the Convention fell to pieces ; its members ...
... wishes for Reform ; and there were several secret enemies to the popular party amongst its ranks . For want of controlling power - in short , for want of a judicious and vigorous leader - the Convention fell to pieces ; its members ...
Side 53
... wish to be free : it was the delicacy of former Parlia- ments to be silent on the subject of commercial restrictions , lest they should show a knowledge of the fact , and not a sense of the violation ; you have spoken out , you have ...
... wish to be free : it was the delicacy of former Parlia- ments to be silent on the subject of commercial restrictions , lest they should show a knowledge of the fact , and not a sense of the violation ; you have spoken out , you have ...
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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...