The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, the Rev. William Jackson, the Defenders, William Orr, Peter Finnerty, and Other Eminent Irishmen |
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... attending them , and the business transacted are given in detail , and extends from the above date to the 31st May , 1798 , so that for one whole year the Executive of the country were intimately acquainted with the conspiracy against ...
... attending them , and the business transacted are given in detail , and extends from the above date to the 31st May , 1798 , so that for one whole year the Executive of the country were intimately acquainted with the conspiracy against ...
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... attend the repetition of their insolent disregard to law were provocatives , unhappily too strong for the uneasy spirits of the people . The Catholic Defenders complained , and it would appear but too justly , that the provisions of the ...
... attend the repetition of their insolent disregard to law were provocatives , unhappily too strong for the uneasy spirits of the people . The Catholic Defenders complained , and it would appear but too justly , that the provisions of the ...
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... attended it in all its stages , and was active long after all hope had departed from the rebel camps . There never was an insurrection punished more inhumanly . The despatches of the military authorities are full of details of hangings ...
... attended it in all its stages , and was active long after all hope had departed from the rebel camps . There never was an insurrection punished more inhumanly . The despatches of the military authorities are full of details of hangings ...
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... attended the last review of that body which took place in the plain of the Falls near Belfast , on the 12th and 13th of July , 1784 , and was appointed by the line to present an address , ( which he had drawn up himself , ) to Lord Char ...
... attended the last review of that body which took place in the plain of the Falls near Belfast , on the 12th and 13th of July , 1784 , and was appointed by the line to present an address , ( which he had drawn up himself , ) to Lord Char ...
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... attend to the circumstances and history of the times in which the libel was published . They tend to explain the motives Howell . St. Trials , vol . 22 , p . 1017 . which induced the publication , and the meaning of the 56 TRIAL OF.
... attend to the circumstances and history of the times in which the libel was published . They tend to explain the motives Howell . St. Trials , vol . 22 , p . 1017 . which induced the publication , and the meaning of the 56 TRIAL OF.
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The Lives and Trials of Archibald Hamilton Rowan: The Rev. William Jackson ... Thomas Mac Nevin No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 89 - ... 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 him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.
Page 54 - In contempt of our said Lord the King, in open violation of the laws of this kingdom, to the evil and pernicious example of all others in the like case offending, and against the peace of our said Lord the King, his crown and dignity.
Page 535 - ... the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent. There was an antidote — a juror's oath— but even that adamantine chain, that bound the integrity of man to the throne of Eternal Justice, is solved and melted in the breath that issues from the informer's mouth — conscience swings from her mooring,...
Page 253 - Treason, but by and upon the Oaths and Testimony of Two lawful Witnesses, either both of them to the same Overt Act, or one of them to one, and the other of them to another Overt Act of the same Treason...
Page 88 - It seems as if the progress of public reformation was eating away the ground of the prosecution. Since the commencement of the prosecution, this part of the libel has unluckily received the sanction of the legislature. In that interval our Catholic brethren have obtained that admission, which it seems it was a libel to propose: in what way to account for this, I am really at a loss.
Page 531 - I do not think meanly of you. Had I thought so meanly of you, I could not suffer my mind to commune with you as it has done. Had I thought you that base and vile instrument, attuned by hope and by fear, into discord and falsehood, from whose vulgar string no groan of suffering could vibrate, no voice of integrity or honor could speak — let me honestly tell you, I should have scorned to fling my hand across it; I should have left it to a fitter minstrel.
Page 88 - If you think so, you must say to them, " you have demanded emancipation, and you have got it; but we abhor your persons, we are outraged at your success, and we will stigmatize, by a criminal prosecution, the adviser of that relief which you have obtained from the voice of your country.
Page v - I, AB, in the presence of God, do pledge myself to my country, that I will use all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an impartial and adequate representation of the Irish nation in Parliament...
Page 535 - Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and...
Page 95 - ... with an eye that never winks, and a wing that never tires : crowned as she is with the spoils of every art, and 'decked with the wreath of every muse ; from the deep and scrutinizing researches of her...