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... liberty , and the pursuit of happiness " are won . It comes to this - if Jefferson was right , O'Connell was wrong . They are as opposite as day and night . Their principles are irreconcilable . Either must be wrong , both cannot be ...
... liberty , and the pursuit of happiness " are won . It comes to this - if Jefferson was right , O'Connell was wrong . They are as opposite as day and night . Their principles are irreconcilable . Either must be wrong , both cannot be ...
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... Liberty . It was his mission to be great and to confer greatness . If he did not create the military ardor , the combination of which effected the revolution of '82 , he cherished the seeds of soldierdom , he nurtured the being ...
... Liberty . It was his mission to be great and to confer greatness . If he did not create the military ardor , the combination of which effected the revolution of '82 , he cherished the seeds of soldierdom , he nurtured the being ...
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... Liberty he worshipped was the deity of what is known as English Constitutional Liberty , those eloquent swords and cannon of the Volunteers , might have effected for the country that immortality of freedom which his eloquence conferred ...
... Liberty he worshipped was the deity of what is known as English Constitutional Liberty , those eloquent swords and cannon of the Volunteers , might have effected for the country that immortality of freedom which his eloquence conferred ...
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... liberty of the other , and the sentiments of the latter , go to oppose those claims , to the last drop of her blood . " Tone could not have been clearer on the point ; but why delude ourselves by merely reading the passage ? Grattan's ...
... liberty of the other , and the sentiments of the latter , go to oppose those claims , to the last drop of her blood . " Tone could not have been clearer on the point ; but why delude ourselves by merely reading the passage ? Grattan's ...
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... liberty what would satisfy an individual . It is the philosophy that is embodied , the principle to be maintained , the truth to be asserted , and not the individual that embodies , maintains , or asserts . " Mr. Byrne , " said a ...
... liberty what would satisfy an individual . It is the philosophy that is embodied , the principle to be maintained , the truth to be asserted , and not the individual that embodies , maintains , or asserts . " Mr. Byrne , " said a ...
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agitation Arklow arms army arrested attack authorities became Boolavogue brave British camp Carnew Catholic chief Cloney cloth Club Colonel command Council County Wexford death defended Devin Reilly Doheny Dublin Dungarvan Edward eloquence Emmet enemies England English Enniscorthy excited Father fight Fitzgerald force Gorey Grattan Hall heart honor hope insurgents John Kildare land leaders letter liberty living Lord Lord Edward Fitzgerald Lord Kingsborough March Meagher Menapii ment military mind Mitchel Musgrave Nation nature never North Cork O'Brien O'Connell officers orator organization Oulart Parliament party passion patriotism Plunket political Price $1 principles prisoner Protestant rebellion rebels Repeal Repeal Association republican retreat Roche Ross royalists says Sheil soldiers soul speech spirit success Thomas Thomas Devin Reilly Thomas Francis Meagher tion Tone took town trial United Irish United Irishmen Vinegar Hill Wexford Whig William write yeomen Young Ireland
Popular passages
Page 217 - 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 man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Page 312 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Page 217 - When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written.
Page 44 - ... 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 latter go to oppose those claims to the last drop of her blood.
Page 48 - 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 340 - I desire that the last act of a proceeding which has occupied so much of the public time should be of short duration. Nor have I the indelicate wish to close the dreary ceremony of a State prosecution with a vain display of words. Did I fear that hereafter when I shall be no more the country...
Page 309 - Our independence must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not support us, they must fall ; we can support ourselves by the aid of that numerous and respectable class of the community, the men of no property . 12.
Page 341 - With my country, then, I leave my memory — my sentiments -my acts — proudly feeling that they require no vindication from me this day. A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not the slightest feeling of resentment towards them.
Page 181 - I lodge with my friend Paine, — we breakfast, dine, and sup together. The more I see of his interior, the more I like and respect him. I cannot express how kind he is to me ; there is a simplicity of manner, a goodness of heart, and a strength of mind in him, that I never knew a man before possess.
Page 76 - In the language of holy writ there is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is also a time to fight, and that time has now come.