Irish Tranquility Under Mr. O'Connell: My Lord Mulgrave, and the Roman Priesthood

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W. Carson, 1838 - 126 sider
 

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Side 101 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend: so Caesar may; Then, lest he may, prevent.
Side 110 - The coldest bodies warm with opposition, the hardest sparkle in collision. There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves. The passions are engaged, and create a maternal affection in the mind, which forces us to love the cause for which we suffer.
Side 49 - The people had greatly misapprehended the objects of the Association, and in many instances could not be convinced that they had recommended the suppression of all former divisions and discords, with any other view, than to prepare the people for a general and united insurrectionary movement.
Side 43 - These disturbances have been in every instance excited and inflamed by the agitation of the combined projects for the abolition of tithes and the destruction of the union with Great Britain.
Side 44 - I am to bear my right arm to be cut off, and thrown over my left shoulder, and nailed to the traples door of Armagh, before I will way lay, or betray, or go into court, to prosecute a brother, knowing him to be such.
Side 107 - Th' insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field Strow'd with Rome's citizens, and drench'd in slaughter, His horse's hoofs wet with Patrician blood ! Oh, Portius ! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin...
Side 43 - The propagators of the ribbon system nvail themselves of any local disturbances for the purpose of introducing their own principles; and it is invariably found, that where disturbances are of long continuance, they lose their desultory character, and are methodized into political organization.
Side 44 - I will, to the best of my power, cut down kings, queens, and princes, dukes, earls, lords, and all such, with land jobbers, and heresy. "8. I swear that I will never pity the moans or groans of the dying, from the cradle to the crutch, and that I will wade knee deep in Orange blood.
Side 49 - Oh, would to God that our excellent Viceroy Lord Anglesey, would but only give me a commission, and if those men of blood should attempt to attack the property and person of his Majesty's loyal subjects, WITH A HUNDRED THOUSAND OF MY BRAVE T1PPEHARY BOYS, I WOULD SOON DRIVE THEM INTO THE SEA BEFORE ME.
Side 48 - Tipperary was afflicted time immemorial, by the same spirit of family faction, and its most constant concomitant, secret association. " The passion for such meetings increased, the numbers who flocked to them augmented. Instead of a few hundreds, who originally had been convened, and with some reluctance for a particular purpose, and thousands more were to be seen in every direction, anxious to reconcile their differences, and to sacrifice every private compact to their LOYALTY, as they termed it...

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