The History of Ireland: From the Treaty of Limerick to the Present Time : Being a Continuation of the History of the Abbé MacGeoghegan, Volumes 1-2 |
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... facts we shall have to tell . If the writer has succeeded - as he has earnestly desired to do -in arranging those facts in good order , and exhibiting the naked truth concerning English domination since the Treaty of Limerick , as our ...
... facts we shall have to tell . If the writer has succeeded - as he has earnestly desired to do -in arranging those facts in good order , and exhibiting the naked truth concerning English domination since the Treaty of Limerick , as our ...
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... fact , certain that the war would soon have been admitted , that in return for the en- blazed forth fiercer than ... facts proving what a very valuable consideration the Catholics gave for the poor guaranty they thought they were ...
... fact , certain that the war would soon have been admitted , that in return for the en- blazed forth fiercer than ... facts proving what a very valuable consideration the Catholics gave for the poor guaranty they thought they were ...
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... fact which , if it were not notorious and well - attested , might seem incredible ; seeing that one of the worst charges brought against the Catholics at that period was that they taught that faith was not to be kept with heretics . The ...
... fact which , if it were not notorious and well - attested , might seem incredible ; seeing that one of the worst charges brought against the Catholics at that period was that they taught that faith was not to be kept with heretics . The ...
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... fact , those honest Protestants and a Mr. Stone , member of the Irish were relieved by express enactment . House of Commons , being examined at the Another petition , gravely presented to bar of the English House , gave in his evi ...
... fact , those honest Protestants and a Mr. Stone , member of the Irish were relieved by express enactment . House of Commons , being examined at the Another petition , gravely presented to bar of the English House , gave in his evi ...
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... fact , more abstrate afterwards in the midst of the commotions and metaphysical than legal . It is said excited by Lucas , wrote to a friend : " I that Mr. Molyneux , who was an intimate am by no means interested , nor is any of friend ...
... fact , more abstrate afterwards in the midst of the commotions and metaphysical than legal . It is said excited by Lucas , wrote to a friend : " I that Mr. Molyneux , who was an intimate am by no means interested , nor is any of friend ...
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Page 199 - I also declare, that it is not an article of the catholic faith; neither am I thereby required to believe or profess that the pope is infallible, or that I am bound to obey any order in its own nature immoral, though the pope or any ecclesiastical power should issue or direct such order, but on the contrary, I hold that it would be sinful in me to pay any respect or obedience thereto...
Page 117 - ... that it is not by temporary expedients, but by a free trade alone, that this nation is now to be saved from impending ruin.
Page 181 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable Government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing 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 Dis* Thomas Russell, Tone's most intimate friend and comrade. HISTORY Of IRELAND. senter — these...
Page 46 - In short, he was like Mr. Wood, all over brass, and he defied the armies of the living God. Goliah's conditions of combat were likewise the same with those of Wood : " if he prevail against us, then shall we be his servants." But if it happens that I prevail over him, I renounce the other part of the condition; "he shall never be a servant of mine ; for I do not think him fit to be trusted in any honest man's shop.
Page 16 - Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 42 - ... kingdom ; and that all proceedings before the said House of Lords upon any such judgment, sentence or decree, are, and are hereby declared to be utterly null and void, to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
Page 167 - ... grievously whipped and burned through the gristle of the right ear with a hot iron of the compass of an inch about, as a manifestation of his wicked life, and due punishment received for the same.
Page 42 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 27 - Parliament in England, in the first year of the reign of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act declaring the rights and liberties of the Subject and settling the Succession of the Crown...
Page 77 - Born and educated in this country, I glory in the name of Briton ; and the peculiar happiness of my life will ever consist in promoting the welfare of a people, whose loyalty and warm affection to me I consider as the greatest and most permanent security of my throne...