The Repealer's Manual; Or, Absenteeism: the Union Re-considered, Volume 1T. O'Flanagan, 1833 - Absentee landlordism |
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... separate from them altogether ? If " God hath set the members of the body , every one of them , in the body , as it hath pleased Him , and that the eye cannot say to the hand , I need not thy help , nor again the hand to the feet , I ...
... separate from them altogether ? If " God hath set the members of the body , every one of them , in the body , as it hath pleased Him , and that the eye cannot say to the hand , I need not thy help , nor again the hand to the feet , I ...
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... separate public emolument or privileges from the community , but in consideration of public services , which are not descendable ; neither ought the offices of magistrate , legis- lator , or judge , or any other public officer , to be ...
... separate public emolument or privileges from the community , but in consideration of public services , which are not descendable ; neither ought the offices of magistrate , legis- lator , or judge , or any other public officer , to be ...
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... , there was always a separate and distinct legislature in Ireland . Cromwell in the plenitude of his power called two parliaments consisting of members from Ireland as well as England WHAT WAS THE DESIGN OF THE UNION ? 109.
... , there was always a separate and distinct legislature in Ireland . Cromwell in the plenitude of his power called two parliaments consisting of members from Ireland as well as England WHAT WAS THE DESIGN OF THE UNION ? 109.
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... separately , and the multifarious other fiscal offices , especially the legal offices , were crammed to suf focation , as the reward of Union votes . " The price of a single vote was familiarly known . It was £ 8,000 in money , or a ...
... separately , and the multifarious other fiscal offices , especially the legal offices , were crammed to suf focation , as the reward of Union votes . " The price of a single vote was familiarly known . It was £ 8,000 in money , or a ...
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... separate from England . " 3rd , That " in respect to past expenses , Ireland was to have no concern whatever with the debt of Great Britain ; but that henceforward the two countries were to unite as to future expenses on a strict ...
... separate from England . " 3rd , That " in respect to past expenses , Ireland was to have no concern whatever with the debt of Great Britain ; but that henceforward the two countries were to unite as to future expenses on a strict ...
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Page 257 - That the churches of England and Ireland, as now by law established, be united into one protestant episcopal church, to be called, The United Church of England and Ireland ; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England; and the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of England and Ireland...
Page 41 - 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 34 - Heaven forming each on other to depend. A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of alL Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally The common interest, or endear the tie.
Page 36 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 253 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by...
Page 37 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim, — Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 138 - Whensoever, therefore, the legislative shall transgress this fundamental rule of society, and either by ambition, fear, folly, or corruption, endeavor to grasp themselves or put into the hands of any other an absolute power over the lives, liberties, and estates of the people...
Page 312 - Are you competent to transfer your legislative rights to the French council of five hundred ? Are you competent to transfer them to the British parliament? I answer, No. When you transfer you abdicate, and the great original trust reverts to the people from whom it issued. Yourselves you may extinguish, but parliament you cannot extinguish...
Page 297 - O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Page 79 - Have left a nameless pyramid, Thy heroes, though the general doom Hath swept the column from their tomb, A mightier monument command, The mountains of their native land! There points thy Muse to stranger's eye The graves of those that cannot die! 'Twere long to tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendor to disgrace: Enough, — no foreign foe could quell Thy soul, till from itself it fell; Yes! self-abasement paved the way To villain-bonds and despot sway.