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... desires of their British Protestant rulers . Instead of making the Irish peasantry Protestant , it had always rendered them all the more devotedly Roman Catholic . * They natu- * " Yet these ( Irish Catholics ) only clung the closer to ...
... desires of their British Protestant rulers . Instead of making the Irish peasantry Protestant , it had always rendered them all the more devotedly Roman Catholic . * They natu- * " Yet these ( Irish Catholics ) only clung the closer to ...
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... desires . But whatever may have been the errors of British rule in Ireland , the chief " United Irish " leaders had no personal reason to com- plain , for they belonged to the same race and to the same form of Christianity as their ...
... desires . But whatever may have been the errors of British rule in Ireland , the chief " United Irish " leaders had no personal reason to com- plain , for they belonged to the same race and to the same form of Christianity as their ...
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... desire - too prevalent , probably , everywhere - of landlords to obtain and tenants to withhold as much as possible , is in Ireland usually mingled with the distrustful hostility between Catholics and Protestants , the bitterness of ...
... desire - too prevalent , probably , everywhere - of landlords to obtain and tenants to withhold as much as possible , is in Ireland usually mingled with the distrustful hostility between Catholics and Protestants , the bitterness of ...
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... desire to hear or discuss both sides of any religious or political question , are usually thought , even in these days of educational en- lightenment , merely signs of a weak spirit or a wavering mind , unfit to lead or exhort one party ...
... desire to hear or discuss both sides of any religious or political question , are usually thought , even in these days of educational en- lightenment , merely signs of a weak spirit or a wavering mind , unfit to lead or exhort one party ...
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... desire and pursue an ideal government , an attractive fancy , which has no existing model . Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Tone certainly praised the French republic , and called themselves citizens ; but history has proved that all French ...
... desire and pursue an ideal government , an attractive fancy , which has no existing model . Lord Edward Fitzgerald and Tone certainly praised the French republic , and called themselves citizens ; but history has proved that all French ...
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Revolted Ireland, 1798 and 1803 (Classic Reprint) Albert Stratford George Canning No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 96 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth — then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 35 - To insult the shrine of Liberty with spoils From freemen torn; to tempt and to betray?
Page 92 - OH, BREATHE NOT HIS NAME I— Moore. Oh, breathe not his name ! let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid ; Sad, silent, and dark, be the tears that we shed, As the night-dew that falls on the grass o'er his head.
Page 95 - I am going to my cold and silent grave ; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world ; it is the charity of its silence...
Page 95 - My lords, you are impatient for the sacrifice. The blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim - it circulates warmly and unruffled through the channels which God created for noble purposes, but which you are now bent to destroy for purposes so grievous that they cry to heaven.
Page 41 - How art thou fallen from heaven, 0 Lucifer, son of the morning ! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations...
Page 30 - And sure it is yet a most beautiful and sweet country as any is under heaven, being stored throughout with many goodly rivers, replenished with all sorts of fish...
Page 95 - I cannot let this numerous audience suppose that to such an appeal I have no answer to make. But what I have to say you would not bear to hear, for my defence would be your condemnation. Proceed, then, in the name of God, to do what is permitted to you. Yesterday and the day before you have condemned loyal and honourable blood to be poured forth like water. Spare not mine. Were that of all my ancestors in my veins, I would have perilled it in this quarrel.
Page 95 - I am going to my cold and silent grave: my lamp of life is nearly extinguished: my race is run: the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world, — it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no...