Past and Present Policy of England Towards IrelandE. Moxon, 1845 - 373 pages |
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... measures that would be * * In March 1829 , Sir Robert Peel spoke as follows in the House of Commons : - " We cannot determine on remaining idle spectators of the discord and disturbances of Ireland . The universal voice of the country ...
... measures that would be * * In March 1829 , Sir Robert Peel spoke as follows in the House of Commons : - " We cannot determine on remaining idle spectators of the discord and disturbances of Ireland . The universal voice of the country ...
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... measure proposed for Ireland , and to keep alive those feelings of inter- national estrangement , which all wise and good men of both countries are striving to extinguish . In attempting to show the disgrace , as well as the danger , of ...
... measure proposed for Ireland , and to keep alive those feelings of inter- national estrangement , which all wise and good men of both countries are striving to extinguish . In attempting to show the disgrace , as well as the danger , of ...
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... this work had passed through the press before Parliament met , and there- fore , before the intentions of Government to propose such a measure had been announced . March 15 , 1845 . ERRATA . Page 27 , note , for " in PREFACE . XV.
... this work had passed through the press before Parliament met , and there- fore , before the intentions of Government to propose such a measure had been announced . March 15 , 1845 . ERRATA . Page 27 , note , for " in PREFACE . XV.
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... the reign of Henry the Eighth such vigorous and successful measures were adopted for extending the royal authority , and the Irish chieftains were so generally inclined to submission and obedience , * that if 14 PAST AND PRESENT POLICY OF.
... the reign of Henry the Eighth such vigorous and successful measures were adopted for extending the royal authority , and the Irish chieftains were so generally inclined to submission and obedience , * that if 14 PAST AND PRESENT POLICY OF.
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... measures of reformation , which were in fact by no means unpalatable to the majority of the nation . The only very eminent men who rejected the supre- macy were Fisher and More ; and though one was the most illustrious statesman in the ...
... measures of reformation , which were in fact by no means unpalatable to the majority of the nation . The only very eminent men who rejected the supre- macy were Fisher and More ; and though one was the most illustrious statesman in the ...
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Page 62 - For, in reason, all government without the consent of the governed, is the very definition of slavery ; but, in fact, eleven men well armed will certainly subdue one single man in his shirt.
Page 216 - Tempests occasionally shake our dwellings and dissipate our commerce ; but they scourge before them the lazy elements which, without them, would stagnate into pestilence. In like manner Liberty herself, the last and best gift of God to his creatures, must be taken just as she is : you might...
Page 86 - That as Men and as Irishmen, as Christians and as protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the Penal Laws against our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 324 - Britain, hath not any right or title whatsoever to the crown of this realm...
Page 73 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 351 - ... viceroy of an empire, wrested in blood from the people to whom God and nature had given it He may and must have preserved that unjust dominion over timorous and abject nations, by a terrifying, overbearing...
Page 309 - the impulse of the popular wave, or be left " behind on the beach to perish.
Page 37 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression, which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people, whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke.
Page 46 - I wish gentlemen, who call themselves the dignified and independent Irish nation, to know that seven millions eight hundred thousand acres of land were set out, under the authority of this Act, to a motley crew of English adventurers, civil and military, nearly to the total exclusion of the old inhabitants of the island. Many of...
Page 33 - ... perform any divine offices, or converse with them; and which hold, many of them two or three, four or more vicarages a-piece; even the clerkships themselves are in like manner conferred upon the English; and sometimes two or three or more upon one man, and ordinarily bought and sold, or let to farm. His majesty is now with the greatest part of this country, as to their hearts and consciences, king but at the pope's discretion.