History of the Union of the Kingdoms of Great-Britain and Ireland: With an Introductory Survey of Hibernian Affairs, Traced from the Times of Celtic Colonisation |
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... advantages might seem to promise . It was ruled by a junto of ambitious men , who attended more to their own aggrandisement than to the welfare of the people ; who engaged , on condition of enjoying a mono- poly of power and office , to ...
... advantages might seem to promise . It was ruled by a junto of ambitious men , who attended more to their own aggrandisement than to the welfare of the people ; who engaged , on condition of enjoying a mono- poly of power and office , to ...
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... advantages , much more important , and which would much more than compensate any increase of taxes that might accompany that union . ' The grand benefit , he added , would be the complete deliverance of the major part of the people from ...
... advantages , much more important , and which would much more than compensate any increase of taxes that might accompany that union . ' The grand benefit , he added , would be the complete deliverance of the major part of the people from ...
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... advantages , with a proviso that she should contribute , in proportion to her growing prosperity , to defray the expences required in time of peace for the protection of the trade and general in- terests of the empire . But Mr. Grattan ...
... advantages , with a proviso that she should contribute , in proportion to her growing prosperity , to defray the expences required in time of peace for the protection of the trade and general in- terests of the empire . But Mr. Grattan ...
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... advantages it might seem to promise , might have been neglected and post- poned from indolence or indifference ; but , when the rashness of political empiricism , and the impolicy of the chief potentates of Europe , had propagated the ...
... advantages it might seem to promise , might have been neglected and post- poned from indolence or indifference ; but , when the rashness of political empiricism , and the impolicy of the chief potentates of Europe , had propagated the ...
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... advantages endeavour to procure that incorporation ? ' - He then inquired in what cases an union was likely to be most advantageous . If one of the states desirous of coalescing should be inferior in point of civilisation , agriculture ...
... advantages endeavour to procure that incorporation ? ' - He then inquired in what cases an union was likely to be most advantageous . If one of the states desirous of coalescing should be inferior in point of civilisation , agriculture ...
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Page 124 - That in order to promote and secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to consolidate the strength, power, and resources, of the British empire, it will be advisable to concur in such measures as may best tend to unite the two kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 521 - That for the like purpose it would be fit to propose, that all laws in force at the time of the union, and that all the courts of civil or ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the respective kingdoms, shall remain as now by law established within the same, subject only to such alterations or regulations, from time to time, as circumstances may appear to the parliament of the United Kingdom to require.
Page 516 - Britain may hereafter enjoy the same except the Right and Privilege of sitting in the House of Lords and the Privileges depending thereon and particularly the Right of sitting upon the Trials of Peers.
Page 512 - One, for ever after be united into One Kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and that the Royal Style and Titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown of the said United Kingdom and its Dependencies...
Page 518 - ... may be composed, or of any abatement of duty on the same, and that when any such new or additional countervailing duty shall be so imposed on the import of any article into either country from the other, a...
Page 515 - Parliament by law, and, until so defined, shall be those of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and of its members and committees, at the commencement of this Constitution.
Page 514 - commoners (two for each county of Ireland, two for the city of Dublin, two for the city of Cork, one for the University of Trinity College, and one for each of the thirty-one most considerable cities, towns, and boroughs), be the number to sit and vote on the part of Ireland in the House of Commons of the parliament of the united kingdom...
Page 330 - Parliamentary constitution, and in a great measure by that Parliamentary constitution, have nearly doubled. Commercially it has worked well. Your concord with England since the Emancipation, as far as it relates to Parliament, on the subject of war, has been not only approved, but has been productive.
Page 327 - ... judicature, where he is to increase your taxes, where he is to get an Irish tribute, there he is a plain, direct, matter-of-fact man; but where he is to pay you for all this, there he is poetic and prophetic; no longer a financier, but an inspired accountant.
Page 125 - ... the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and that such a number of lords spiritual and temporal, and such a number of members of the house of commons as shall be hereafter agreed upon by acts of the respective parliaments as aforesaid, shall sit and vote in. the said parliament on the part of Ireland, and shall be summoned, chosen, and returned, in such manner as shall be fixed by an act of the parliament of Ireland previous to the...