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... once more beheld them in arms against foreign invaders ( p . 102. ) and to their magnanimous exertions is Ireland indebted for the institution . of the Volunteers , whose disinterested efforts in favour of iv PREFACE .
... once more beheld them in arms against foreign invaders ( p . 102. ) and to their magnanimous exertions is Ireland indebted for the institution . of the Volunteers , whose disinterested efforts in favour of iv PREFACE .
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... arms against innumerable hosts of enemies , " ( p . 383. ) In the following year 1793 , England joined this detestable confederacy , and the French nation , goaded into madness and desperation by fo reign enemies and domestic foes ...
... arms against innumerable hosts of enemies , " ( p . 383. ) In the following year 1793 , England joined this detestable confederacy , and the French nation , goaded into madness and desperation by fo reign enemies and domestic foes ...
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... arms , and that of O'Neill passing the river Bann in the reign of Edward III . seized a great part of the county of Antrim , and parcelled it among themselves , under the names of the Upper and Lower Clan - Hugh - Boy , ( or the clan of ...
... arms , and that of O'Neill passing the river Bann in the reign of Edward III . seized a great part of the county of Antrim , and parcelled it among themselves , under the names of the Upper and Lower Clan - Hugh - Boy , ( or the clan of ...
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... arms and signed a covenant by which they bound themselves to resist religious innovations , and to defend each other against any opposition whatever . On the first alarm of this insurrection , a new oath of loyalty , and an abjuration ...
... arms and signed a covenant by which they bound themselves to resist religious innovations , and to defend each other against any opposition whatever . On the first alarm of this insurrection , a new oath of loyalty , and an abjuration ...
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... arms , either by buying or lending , but could not prevail . At last he found in Master Lesquire's house seven muskets , and eight halberts ready in the street to be shipped to Carrickfer- gus ; which arms he took , and bought a drum ...
... arms , either by buying or lending , but could not prevail . At last he found in Master Lesquire's house seven muskets , and eight halberts ready in the street to be shipped to Carrickfer- gus ; which arms he took , and bought a drum ...
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Address Alexander arms army arrived artillery assembled Belfast Volunteer Company body Britain Captain Carrickfergus Chair Chairman Charlemont Colonel command committee conduct constitution corps county of Antrim declaration defence delegates Donegall Dublin Dungannon duty Earl election enemies exertions favour France freedom freeholders friends gentlemen George glorious happy Henry HENRY FLOOD honour House of Commons Hugh inhabitants of Belfast Ireland Irish James Ferguson John O'Neill July King kingdom late legislature liberty Lisburn Lord Charlemont Lordship Majesty Majesty's March meeting ment nation Newry Northern Star o'clock occasion officers parliament patriotic persons petition present principles Protestant reform regiment representation representatives resolutions Resolved respect Robert Robert Simms Robert Thomson Roman Catholics Rowley Samuel Samuel Neilson sentiments Signed by order Sinclaire Sovereign spirit Stewart thanks Thomas Thomas Sinclaire tion town of Belfast troops Ulster unanimously unanimously.-That United Irishmen Waddell Cunningham William William Magee
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Page 183 - That as men, and as Irishmen, as Christians, and as Protestants, we rejoice in the relaxation of the Penal Laws against our Roman Catholic fellow subjects ; and that we conceive the measure to be fraught with the happiest consequences to the union and prosperity of the inhabitants of Ireland.
Page 180 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 31 - The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion ; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Page 32 - That every one in their station and calling earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints...
Page 341 - A bill for preventing revenue officers from voting at elections. " A bill for rendering the servants of the crown of Ireland responsible for the expenditure of the public money. " A bill to protect the personal safety of the subject against arbitrary and excessive bail, and against the stretching of the power of attachment beyond the limits of the constitution.
Page 180 - That the ports of this country are by right open to all foreign countries not at war with the king, and that any burden thereupon or obstruction thereto, save only by the Parliament of Ireland, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 358 - ... spirit of her representatives in the legislature. Such an extrinsic power, acting with uniform force in a direction too frequently opposite to the true line of our obvious interests, can be resisted with effect solely by unanimity, decision, and spirit in the people; qualities which may be exerted most legally, constitutionally, and efficaciously, by that great measure essential to the prosperity and freedom of Ireland, AN EQUAL REPRESENTATION OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN PARLIAMENT.
Page 181 - That the independence of judges is equally essential to the impartial administration of justice in Ireland, as in England; and that the refusal or delay of this right to Ireland, makes a distinction where there should be no distinction, may excite jealousy where perfect union should prevail, and is in itself unconstitutional and a grievance.
Page 41 - ... can be no work of the civil sword, but of the spiritual, which is the word of God. No man well in his wits, endeavouring to root up weeds out of his ground, instead of using the spade will take a*mallet or a beetle.
Page 49 - England, by whose authority and in whose right they inhabit there. By their actions we might rather judge them to be a generation of Highland thieves and redshanks, who being neighbourly admitted, not as the Saxons by merit of their warfare against our enemies, but by the courtesy of England, to hold possessions in our province, a country better than their own, have, with worse faith than those heathen, proved...