The Select Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To which is Added His Letter on Union, with a Commentary on His Career and Character |
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... Petition . Exhausted by the journey , he expired there . The best and noblest spirits in England gathered round his sons , and entreated that his remains should lie where Fox and Chatham are interred . His grave is in Westminster Abbey ...
... Petition . Exhausted by the journey , he expired there . The best and noblest spirits in England gathered round his sons , and entreated that his remains should lie where Fox and Chatham are interred . His grave is in Westminster Abbey ...
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... petition and appeal was lodged with the House of Lords , of England , from the English society of the new plantation of Ulster , complaining of the Irish House of Lords , who had decided in a case between them and the Bishop of Derry ...
... petition and appeal was lodged with the House of Lords , of England , from the English society of the new plantation of Ulster , complaining of the Irish House of Lords , who had decided in a case between them and the Bishop of Derry ...
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... Petition of Right , or that other that passed the Declaration of Right , are you afraid to tell that British Parliament you are a free people ? Are the cities and the instructing counties , who have breathed a spirit that would have ...
... Petition of Right , or that other that passed the Declaration of Right , are you afraid to tell that British Parliament you are a free people ? Are the cities and the instructing counties , who have breathed a spirit that would have ...
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... Petition of Right , Bill of Right , Revolution , and Act of Settlement . The King has no other title to his crown than that which you have to your liberty ; both are founded , the throne and your freedom , upon the right vested in the ...
... Petition of Right , Bill of Right , Revolution , and Act of Settlement . The King has no other title to his crown than that which you have to your liberty ; both are founded , the throne and your freedom , upon the right vested in the ...
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... petition of right , said that the statutes of the great charter and other franchises are con- ceived in general to be expounded , that is to say , to be done away by precedents : but he lived to feel , in his own impeachment , the ...
... petition of right , said that the statutes of the great charter and other franchises are con- ceived in general to be expounded , that is to say , to be done away by precedents : but he lived to feel , in his own impeachment , the ...
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Page 448 - A character so exalted, so strenuous, so various, so authoritative, astonished a corrupt age, and the Treasury trembled at the name of Pitt through all her classes of venality Corruption imagined, indeed, that she had found defects in this statesman, and talked much of the inconsistency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories — but the history of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, answered and refuted her.
Page 429 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Page 447 - Bourbon, and wielded in the other the democracy of England. The sight of his mind was infinite ; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity. Wonderful were the means...
Page 257 - ... the consent of the people, given by themselves or their deputies. And this properly concerns only such governments where the legislative is always in being, or at least where the people have not reserved any part of the legislative to deputies, to be from time to time chosen by themselves.
Page xxviii - 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 82 - I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation. I have spoken on the subject of your liberty so often, that I have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what...
Page 185 - But if a long train of abuses, prevarications, and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people...
Page 448 - ... not like the torrent of Demosthenes, or the splendid conflagration of Tully, it resembled sometimes the thunder, and sometimes the music of the spheres.
Page 299 - Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 376 - I do swear, That I will defend to the utmost of my Power the Settlement of Property within this Realm, as established by the Laws : And I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any Intention to subvert the present Church Establishment as settled by Law within this Realm...