 The conversation of the principal persons of the country all tends to encourage this system of blood ; and the conversation even at my table, where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &c., &c. ; and...  The Nineteenth Century - Side 151889Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 sider
...where you will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, Src., &c. ; and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company. So much for Ireland and my wretched situation." * For this spirit of clemency — though accompanied... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1907 - 716 sider
...you may suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc., etc., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company." Yet the Catholics were expected to roll back the tide of nature and fondly lick the hand that so barbarously... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - 1910 - 1134 sider
...table, where you may suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, &c., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company." In 1799 the Irish Parliament passed an Act of indemnity securing against punishment all persons in.... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 468 sider
...well suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc. etc. ; and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company." — -Ibid., 369. 2 In sending the looth Regiment and " some troops that can be depended upon," he wrote... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1912 - 470 sider
...may well suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc. etc.; and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company."—Ibid., 369. - In sending the looth Regiment and " some troops that can be depended upon,"... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1917 - 558 sider
...will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc., etc., and if a priest has been put to death the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company. So much for Ireland and my wretched ' situation.' The life of a Lord Lieutenant of Ireland comes up... | |
 | Francis Hackett - 1922 - 428 sider
...will suppose I do all I can to prevent it, always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc., etc., and if a priest has been put to death the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company. So much for Ireland and my wretched situation." 12 In August, 1798, after the execution of Bond, Byrne,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 sider
...all I can to prevent it, the conversation always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, and so forth ; and if a priest has been put to death the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company.' The Catholics were equally sanguinary. A prominent rebel, who was executed on Vinegar Hill, and whose confession... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1977 - 242 sider
..."all tends to encourage this system of blood"; it "always turns on hanging, shooting, burning, etc., and if a priest has been put to death, the greatest joy is expressed by the whole company."21 Probably the best one-sentence summation of the legal mind against which Cornwallis struggled... | |
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