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Page 133
... navigation , to which we never consented , pinned down upon us , and rigorously exe- cuted ; and a thousand other unexampled circumstances , as grievous as they are invidious to mention . To go on to the rest . " It is too well known ...
... navigation , to which we never consented , pinned down upon us , and rigorously exe- cuted ; and a thousand other unexampled circumstances , as grievous as they are invidious to mention . To go on to the rest . " It is too well known ...
Page 202
... navigation , and arbitress of all the commercial interests of the realm . Aroused by these threats , and by the acclamations with which they were hailed out of doors , Mr. Pitt recast the whole scheme , and , by introducing various ...
... navigation , and arbitress of all the commercial interests of the realm . Aroused by these threats , and by the acclamations with which they were hailed out of doors , Mr. Pitt recast the whole scheme , and , by introducing various ...
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... NAVIGATION . - COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS . - PROGRESS PROSPECTS . OF TRAVELLING . - RAILWAYS . - GENERAL " The Statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals , would not only ...
... NAVIGATION . - COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC WORKS . - PROGRESS PROSPECTS . OF TRAVELLING . - RAILWAYS . - GENERAL " The Statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals , would not only ...
Page 269
... navigation , drain a marsh , cut a canal , construct a railway , pave a street , or light a town with gas , but you are stopped by a government board already esta- blished to point out to all men how in such cases they shall proceed ...
... navigation , drain a marsh , cut a canal , construct a railway , pave a street , or light a town with gas , but you are stopped by a government board already esta- blished to point out to all men how in such cases they shall proceed ...
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... navigation , col- lieries , and manufactories of different kinds . But the truth is that most of the public works were private jobs carried on under the direction and for the advantage of some consi- derable gentlemen of the House of ...
... navigation , col- lieries , and manufactories of different kinds . But the truth is that most of the public works were private jobs carried on under the direction and for the advantage of some consi- derable gentlemen of the House of ...
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Page 118 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression, which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people ; whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke.
Page 262 - The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Page 429 - It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they have propagated in the towns wherein they have settled ; so that not only they who have been ejected have been rendered miserable, but they have carried with them and propagated that misery.
Page 184 - 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 heaven-directed steps you have proceeded until the whole faculty of the nation is braced up to the act of her own deliverance. I found Ireland on her knees, I watched over her with an...
Page 180 - ... consummation of everything, are yet to come. Without them the work is imperfect, the foundation is wanting, the capital is wanting, trade is not free, Ireland is a colony without the benefit of a charter, and you are a provincial synod without the privileges of a parliament. I...
Page 180 - The British minister mistakes the Irish character: had he intended to make Ireland a slave, he should have kept her a beggar; there is no middle policy; win her heart by the restoration of her right, or cut off the nation's right hand ; greatly emancipate, or fundamentally destroy. We may talk plausibly to England, but so long as she exercises a power to bind this country, so long are the nations in a state of war; the claims of the one go against the liberty of the other, and the sentiments of the...
Page 180 - ... reject that good which not a minister — not a Lord North — not a Lord Buckinghamshire — not a Lord Hillsborough, but a certain providential conjuncture, or, rather, the hand of God, seems to extend to you.
Page 180 - ... baize, serges, and kerseys, and you may bring back again directly from the plantations sugar, indigo, specklewood, beetle-root, and panellas. But liberty, the foundation of trade, the charters of the land, the independency of Parliament, the securing, crowning, and the consummation of everything, are yet to come. Without them the work is imperfect, the foundation is wanting, the capital is wanting, trade is not free, Ireland is a colony without the benefit of a charter, and you are a provincial...
Page 117 - So that the whole of your island has been confiscated, with the exception of the estates of five or six families of English blood, some of whom had been attainted in the reign of Henry VIII., but recovered their possessions before Tyrone's rebellion, and had the good fortune to escape the pillage of the English republic inflicted by Cromwell ; and no inconsiderable portion of the island has been confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice, in the course of a century.
Page 171 - Ireland from the enjoyment and use of her own resources ; to make the kingdom completely subservient to the interests and opulence of this country, without suffering her to share in the bounties of nature, in the industry of her citizens, or making them contribute to the general interests and strength of the empire.