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Page iv
... class were unhappily dependent for subsistence , the general pros- perity of the middle classes of Ireland has not been interrupted . In illustration of this remark I refer primarily to the iv PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS .
... class were unhappily dependent for subsistence , the general pros- perity of the middle classes of Ireland has not been interrupted . In illustration of this remark I refer primarily to the iv PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS .
Page xi
... classes with small sums of money at a low rate of interest , also indicate progress . Year . No. of Funds . Capital . Circulation . £ £ 1838 50 50 180,526 1846 250 408,842 1,770,397 The yearly increasing sums of money transmitted by ...
... classes with small sums of money at a low rate of interest , also indicate progress . Year . No. of Funds . Capital . Circulation . £ £ 1838 50 50 180,526 1846 250 408,842 1,770,397 The yearly increasing sums of money transmitted by ...
Page xiii
... classes , who are acquiring the elective franchise . Number Registered . Total Registered . Number of Electors Registered . 1 Feb. 1845 to 1 Feb. 1846 . 1 Feb. 1846 to 1 Feb. 1847 . On 1 Feb. 1846 . On 1 Feb. 1847 . In counties 4,336 ...
... classes , who are acquiring the elective franchise . Number Registered . Total Registered . Number of Electors Registered . 1 Feb. 1845 to 1 Feb. 1846 . 1 Feb. 1846 to 1 Feb. 1847 . On 1 Feb. 1846 . On 1 Feb. 1847 . In counties 4,336 ...
Page xiv
... classes of the people , and £ 21,000 a - year for salaries to Pro- fessors , & c . Nineteen hundred pounds are voted annually by Parliament to the " Royal Belfast Academical Institution . " The total GRANTS by the State in aid of ...
... classes of the people , and £ 21,000 a - year for salaries to Pro- fessors , & c . Nineteen hundred pounds are voted annually by Parliament to the " Royal Belfast Academical Institution . " The total GRANTS by the State in aid of ...
Page xvii
... 1 infant . The men murdered were principally of the class of labourers and small farmers . There are but 4 classed as gentlemen . The b laws for the preservation of life in Ireland are mainly PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS . xvii.
... 1 infant . The men murdered were principally of the class of labourers and small farmers . There are but 4 classed as gentlemen . The b laws for the preservation of life in Ireland are mainly PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS . xvii.
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Page 393 - ... all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
Page 393 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
Page 30 - Ireland respectively, to consider of such measures as might best tend to strengthen and consolidate the connexion between the two kingdoms, the two houses of the parliament of Great Britain, and the two houses of the parliament of Ireland have severally agreed and resolved...
Page 403 - Ireland in the house of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom : That such act as shall be passed in the parliament of Ireland previous to the union, to regulate the mode by which the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons, to serve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, shall be summoned and returned to the said parliament...
Page 397 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by...
Page 379 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 396 - Union that four Lords Spiritual of Ireland by rotation of Sessions, and twenty-eight Lords Temporal of Ireland, elected for life by the Peers of Ireland, shall be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom...
Page 39 - I am to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base, as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid.
Page 326 - And, moreover, we do declare her to be deprived of her pretended title to the kingdom aforesaid, and of all dominion, dignity, and privilege whatsoever.
Page 326 - Peter the chief of the apostles, and to Peter's successor, the bishop of Rome, to be governed in fulness of power. Him alone he made prince over all people, and all kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, consume, plant, and build...