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Page 16 - a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, 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 122 - The glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William, not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money, and wooden shoes; &c. &c. &c." The concluding part of this loyal toast is a tissue of vulgar indecencies, and impious imprecations on
Page 134 - matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery—the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust, his soul walks abroad in her own majesty, his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around
Page 229 - Mr. Reynolds, it is impossible to look upon him, except as " a kind of man, to whom the law resorts with abhorrence and from necessity, in order to set the criminal against the crime; and who is made use of by the law, for the same reasons that the most noxious poisons are resorted to in desperate disorders."*
Page 130 - 2nd. That the sole constitutional mode by which this influence can be opposed, is by a complete and radical reform of the representation of the people in parliament. " 3rd. That no reform is just which does not include Irishmen of
Page 117 - Catholic faith. A lawless banditti have constituted themselves judges of this species of delinquency, and the sentence they pronounce is equally concise and terrible: it is nothing less than a confiscation of all property, and immediate banishment. It would be extremely
Page 83 - a thing to be desired for the present,' but ' the means of doing a greater service to the British Empire, than it has been capable of receiving since the Revolution, or at least since the Union
Page 96 - the value, spirit, and essence of the House of Commons, consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation:
Page 331 - may be thus stated, the force of the muscles and the sensibility of the nerves of an innocent person being given, it is required to find the degree of pain necessary to make him confess himself guilty of a
Page 148 - who has a charming villa there. He showed us a little study, of an elliptical form, which he was building at the bottom of the lawn, and which he said he would consecrate to our meetings if ever we lived to see our country emancipated. " I begged of him, if he intended Russell