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... called out . *** It is a fact , that a poor man having a contest with a gentleman , must- -but I am talking nonsense , they know their situation too well to think of it . They can have no defence but by means of pro- tection from one ...
... called out . *** It is a fact , that a poor man having a contest with a gentleman , must- -but I am talking nonsense , they know their situation too well to think of it . They can have no defence but by means of pro- tection from one ...
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... called ; but it was a slave , as well as a tyrant parliament , impotent for all purposes but those of domestic corruption and oppression . It was a parliament which did not possess either the full power , or the sole power , of ...
... called ; but it was a slave , as well as a tyrant parliament , impotent for all purposes but those of domestic corruption and oppression . It was a parliament which did not possess either the full power , or the sole power , of ...
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... called the English interest in Ireland , wrote , in 1724 , to the govern- ment at home- " We are at present in a very bad state , and the people so poisoned with apprehen- sions of Wood's halfpence , that I do not see there can be any ...
... called the English interest in Ireland , wrote , in 1724 , to the govern- ment at home- " We are at present in a very bad state , and the people so poisoned with apprehen- sions of Wood's halfpence , that I do not see there can be any ...
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... called the " King's business , " but might , with more propriety , have been called the business of the Lords Justices . The Viceroy came to Ireland for a few months only in two years , and returned to England perfectly satisfied with ...
... called the " King's business , " but might , with more propriety , have been called the business of the Lords Justices . The Viceroy came to Ireland for a few months only in two years , and returned to England perfectly satisfied with ...
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... called , a company of undertakers . They had assisted at the parliamentary funeral of some opponents ; and now , like Charles V. , though without his satiety of worldly vanities , they were to assist at their own . In the return of this ...
... called , a company of undertakers . They had assisted at the parliamentary funeral of some opponents ; and now , like Charles V. , though without his satiety of worldly vanities , they were to assist at their own . In the return of this ...
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agitation arms army Bantry Bay Belfast bill Britain British Captain Catholic cause cavalry Charlemont command consequence constitution corps Court Defenders delegates Directory Dublin Castle Dungannon emancipation enemy England English Enniscorthy execution favour Fitzgerald force France French friends give Grattan honour House of Commons inhabitants insurgents insurrection Ireland John Sheares justice king's kingdom leaders legislative Lord Castlereagh Lord Charlemont Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Kingsborough Lord Lieutenant magistrates March measures meeting Memoirs ment military minister months murder nation never night occasion officers Oliver Bond organisation Papists parliament parliamentary party patriots persons pike political Popish popular prisoners proceedings proclamation Protestant Protestant ascendency province Rathfriland rebel Rebellion of 1798 reform Reynolds says Secret Committee Society of United spirit Theobald Wolfe Tone thing tion Tone town treason troops Ulster Union United Irish United Irishmen Volunteer Wexford whole Wicklow yeomanry
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Page 6 - 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 8 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Page 100 - In the awful presence of God, I, AB , do voluntarily declare, that I will persevere in endeavouring to form a brotherhood of affection among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and that I will also persevere in my endeavours to obtain an equal, full, and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland.
Page 8 - A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.
Page 154 - Council, issued the most direct and positive orders to the officers cora" manding his Majesty's forces to employ them with the utmost vigour " and decision for the immediate suppression thereof, and also to " recover the arms which have been traitorously forced from his Majesty's " peaceable and loyal subjects, and to disarm the rebels, and all persons " disaffected to his Majesty's government, by the most summary and
Page 55 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the neverfailing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country — these were my objects. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter — these were my means.
Page 16 - I find by my own and others' inquiries that the people of every religion, country, and party here, are alike set against Wood's halfpence, and that their agreement in this has had a very unhappy influence on the state of this nation, by bringing on intimacies between Papists and Jacobites, and the Whigs, who before had no correspondence with them...
Page 101 - While the formation of these societies was in agitation, the friends of liberty were gradually, but with a timid step, advancing towards republicanism; they began to be convinced, that it would be as easy to obtain a revolution as a reform, so obstinately was the latter resisted, and as the...
Page 29 - ... of his gown only as a just sacrifice upon the altar of his country; that strong statement, rather than pathetic supplication, was adapted to the crisis ; and he proposed to Mr.
Page 237 - I stand upon this sacred and immutable principle of the Constitution, that martial law and civil law are incompatible, and that the former must cease with the existence of the latter.