State Policy in Irish Education, A.D. 1536 to 1816: Exemplified in Documents Collected for Lectures to Postgraduate Classes

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Fallon Brothers, 1916 - 235 pages
 

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Page 219 - Catholics be sensible of the benefit they possess by having so many characters of eminence pledged not to embark in the service of Government, except on the terms of the Catholic privileges being obtained...
Page 108 - George the Third By the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting. Know ye, that We of our special grace, certain knowledge and...
Page 143 - Incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland.
Page 221 - opinion of the Roman Catholic Prelates of Ireland, that it is inexpedient " to introduce any alteration in the canonical mode hitherto observed " in the nomination of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, which mode " long experience has proved to be unexceptionable, wise, and salutary.
Page 84 - I, AB, do declare that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the king, and that I do abhor that traitorous position of taking arms by his authority against his person or against those that are commissionated by him, and that I will conform to the liturgy of the Church of England as it is now by law established...
Page 27 - The whole power and property of the country has been conferred by successive monarchs of England upon an English colony, composed of three sets of English adventurers who poured into this country at the termination of three successive rebellions. Confiscation is their common title ; and from their first settlement they have been hemmed in on every side by the old inhabitants of the island, brooding over their discontents in sullen indignation.
Page 126 - Whereas by the laws now in force in this kingdom, it is not lawful to endow any college or seminary for the education exclusively of persons professing the Roman Catholic religion, and it is now become expedient that a seminary should be established for that purpose...
Page 84 - And that the same was in itself an unlawful oath and imposed upon the subjects of this realm against...
Page 163 - The hours of class are but four a day, from eight to ten in the morning, and from two to four in the afternoon ; but this is only a small part of the work-day of the French schoolboy, his hours passed at...
Page 102 - and the obstinacy with which they adhere to their own religion, occasions our trying what may be done with their children to bring them over to our church.

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