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... united with a kingdom of despotic rule . As in the example of Poland , poverty , degradation , and conquest would now have been the fate of Ireland , had England not been truly generous and of a most Catholic charity . It seems ...
... united with a kingdom of despotic rule . As in the example of Poland , poverty , degradation , and conquest would now have been the fate of Ireland , had England not been truly generous and of a most Catholic charity . It seems ...
Page xiv
... United Kingdom . Church of England . Church of Scotland . Church of Rome in Ireland . English Protestant Dissenters . Irish Protestant Dissenters . In 1844 £ 1,529 £ £ £ £ 24,283 8,028 1,862 34,629 In this , as in every other instance ...
... United Kingdom . Church of England . Church of Scotland . Church of Rome in Ireland . English Protestant Dissenters . Irish Protestant Dissenters . In 1844 £ 1,529 £ £ £ £ 24,283 8,028 1,862 34,629 In this , as in every other instance ...
Page xv
... United Kingdom from anarchy and revolution for the last 200 years - by means of a rate on property for the maintenance of the poor , has been established within the last few years , after long opposition from the late Mr. O'Connell and ...
... United Kingdom from anarchy and revolution for the last 200 years - by means of a rate on property for the maintenance of the poor , has been established within the last few years , after long opposition from the late Mr. O'Connell and ...
Page xix
... United Kingdom , scarcely £ 4,500,000 is raised in Ireland , from a population equal to half the population of England . The total net revenue of Ireland in 1846 was only £ 4,333,933 - a sum barely more than sufficient to provide the ...
... United Kingdom , scarcely £ 4,500,000 is raised in Ireland , from a population equal to half the population of England . The total net revenue of Ireland in 1846 was only £ 4,333,933 - a sum barely more than sufficient to provide the ...
Page xx
... united kingdom ; even at this pressing moment , when there are so many financial diffi- culties in Great Britain , Government have refused to tax incomes or property in Ireland . I advert briefly to the recent disastrous famine in ...
... united kingdom ; even at this pressing moment , when there are so many financial diffi- culties in Great Britain , Government have refused to tax incomes or property in Ireland . I advert briefly to the recent disastrous famine in ...
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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...