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... by Curran , by Grattan , and even by Burke . Those who blame Burke's party for not putting him in a high place of responsibility should consider the extravagant violence and absurdity of some of his AND IRISH CHARACTER , 11.
... by Curran , by Grattan , and even by Burke . Those who blame Burke's party for not putting him in a high place of responsibility should consider the extravagant violence and absurdity of some of his AND IRISH CHARACTER , 11.
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... party against the native Irish Church was , that though it had among its saints many confessors , it had no martyr . When this was cast in the teeth of an Irish prelate at the time of the Conquest , the martyrdom of Becket being then ...
... party against the native Irish Church was , that though it had among its saints many confessors , it had no martyr . When this was cast in the teeth of an Irish prelate at the time of the Conquest , the martyrdom of Becket being then ...
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... party were paid for their services in keeping down rebels by a monopoly of power and emolument , and thereby strongly tempted to take care that there should always be rebels to keep down . The ' Pale , ' of which the history extends ...
... party were paid for their services in keeping down rebels by a monopoly of power and emolument , and thereby strongly tempted to take care that there should always be rebels to keep down . The ' Pale , ' of which the history extends ...
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... party chief and an avenger . The Irish are ex- pected to be loyal ; yet it is difficult to imagine how loyalty can be kindled in the heart of a rude clans- man or an ignorant peasant who seldom hears of , and never sees , his king . The ...
... party chief and an avenger . The Irish are ex- pected to be loyal ; yet it is difficult to imagine how loyalty can be kindled in the heart of a rude clans- man or an ignorant peasant who seldom hears of , and never sees , his king . The ...
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... party . But Anglo - Norman valour and policy put forth their power in extremity against an ill - cemented league . The Pope , who at first had lent an ear to the representations of the ecclesiastical Dis - unionists , at last interposed ...
... party . But Anglo - Norman valour and policy put forth their power in extremity against an ill - cemented league . The Pope , who at first had lent an ear to the representations of the ecclesiastical Dis - unionists , at last interposed ...
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Page 145 - IT is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Page 80 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 80 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast.
Page 169 - But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that are hourly committed by our people without any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand times more ferocious.
Page 170 - The principal persons of this country and the members of both houses of parliament, are in general averse to all acts of clemency...
Page 131 - Whilst this restraint of foreign and domestic education was part of an horrible and impious system of servitude, the members were well fitted to the body. To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which could give them a knowledge or feeling of those rights was rationally forbidden. To render humanity fit to be insulted, it was fit that it should be degraded.
Page 84 - Indeed they went away with sound of trumpet, for they did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise, against the Irish land and nation ; insomuch as d'Aquila said in open treaty, that when the devil upon the mount did shew Christ all the kingdoms of the earth, and the glory of them, he did not doubt but the devil left out Ireland, and kept it for himself.