History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798;: With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803 |
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... proved injurious , and executive security was seriously endangered by the proceedings of turbulent men , who still , and without a plea for its necessity , maintained a threatening position , and , like the beggar in Gil Blas demanding ...
... proved injurious , and executive security was seriously endangered by the proceedings of turbulent men , who still , and without a plea for its necessity , maintained a threatening position , and , like the beggar in Gil Blas demanding ...
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... prove that wild excitement alone was germane to a disposition to which graver and dignified pursuits were perfectly unsuited . After becoming an agent to the Catholic committee , and a principal originator of the United Irish Society ...
... prove that wild excitement alone was germane to a disposition to which graver and dignified pursuits were perfectly unsuited . After becoming an agent to the Catholic committee , and a principal originator of the United Irish Society ...
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... prove the extent to which his revolutionary opinions reached : - " In recording the names of the members of the Club , I find I have strangely omitted that of a man whom , as well for his talents as his principles , I esteem as much as ...
... prove the extent to which his revolutionary opinions reached : - " In recording the names of the members of the Club , I find I have strangely omitted that of a man whom , as well for his talents as his principles , I esteem as much as ...
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... proved that ruin must have resulted , the weak but ambitious envoy of the United Irishmen appears to have desired little beyond au emeute , no matter how disastrous that wild and unorganised outbreak should prove to the country and the ...
... proved that ruin must have resulted , the weak but ambitious envoy of the United Irishmen appears to have desired little beyond au emeute , no matter how disastrous that wild and unorganised outbreak should prove to the country and the ...
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... proved - that as many months must elapse before a fleet could be sent afloat . With the Dutch republic , matters were in a different state . In the Texel , five - and - twenty line - of - battle ships and frigates were lying , manned ...
... proved - that as many months must elapse before a fleet could be sent afloat . With the Dutch republic , matters were in a different state . In the Texel , five - and - twenty line - of - battle ships and frigates were lying , manned ...
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afterwards Antrim appeared arms army arrest attack Bagenal Harvey Ballina Belfast body Britain British Captain Castle Castlebar cavalry character Colonel command committee consequence corps death declared defeat disaffected dragoons Dublin effect Emmet endeavoured enemy Enniscorthy escape execution Father Murphy favour feelings fencibles fire Fitzgerald force French friends garrison gentleman Gorey guns honour Humbert hundred immediately infantry insurgents insurrection Ireland Irish John John Sheares Killalla killed King's kingdom leaders Lieutenant Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald lordship ment miles military militia morning murdered Musgrave Neilson never night occasion officers Oliver Bond parliament party persons pikes political priest prisoners proceeded Protestants rebellion rebels regiment retreat returned royalists sanguinary shew shot Sir Charles Asgill soldiers spirit surrender taken tion took town troops unfortunate union United Irishmen Vinegar-hill Wexford wounded wretched yeomanry yeomen
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Page 397 - My lords, it may be a part of the system of angry justice to bow a man's mind by humiliation to the proposed ignominy of the scaffold ; but worse to me than the purposed shame, or the scaffold's terrors, would be the shame of such foul and unfounded imputations as have been laid against me in this court. You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed...
Page 292 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both ? Have you not marked when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no...
Page 405 - ... under pretence of their being heretics ; and also that unchristian and impious principle, that no faith is to be kept with heretics...
Page 398 - I am accountable for all the blood that has, and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, shall you tell me this.... and must I be so very a slave as not to repel it...
Page 397 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honour and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Page 178 - The only crime which the wretched objects of this ruthless persecution are charged...
Page 326 - Ireland have severally agreed and resolved that, in order to promote and secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to consolidate the strength, power and resources of the British Empire, it will be advisable to concur in such measures as may best tend to unite the two Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 292 - I speak not now of the public proclamation of informers, with a promise of secrecy and of extravagant reward ; I speak not of the fate of those horrid wretches who have been so often transferred from the table to the dock, and from the dock to the pillory; I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day...
Page 405 - I do renounce, reject and abjure, the opinion that Princes excommunicated by the Pope and...
Page 43 - Be firm, Irishmen — but be cool and cautious ; be patient yet a while ; trust to no unauthorized communications; and above all, we warn you — again and again we warn you — against doing the work of your tyrants, by premature, by partial, or divided exertion. If Ireland shall be forced to throw away the scabbard, let it be at her own time, not at theirs...