A Postliminious Preface to the Historical Review of the State of Ireland |
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... principles , which led the author to undertake the arduous and important ( and to fome , in- vidious ) task of bringing down the Irish history to the present day , he cannot pafs wholly unnoticed , the invectives upon the Historical ...
... principles , which led the author to undertake the arduous and important ( and to fome , in- vidious ) task of bringing down the Irish history to the present day , he cannot pafs wholly unnoticed , the invectives upon the Historical ...
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... principle of found policy : it was a declaration of perpetual war against " not only the native Irish , but against every perfon of English blood , " who had fettled beyond the limits of the Pale , or from motives of " perfonal intereft ...
... principle of found policy : it was a declaration of perpetual war against " not only the native Irish , but against every perfon of English blood , " who had fettled beyond the limits of the Pale , or from motives of " perfonal intereft ...
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... principles , which had received currency with the English afcendancy in Ireland fince the Reformation ; admit- ting he could write a more true , which would , of course , be a lefs faleable history of that country . The late Mr. Edmund ...
... principles , which had received currency with the English afcendancy in Ireland fince the Reformation ; admit- ting he could write a more true , which would , of course , be a lefs faleable history of that country . The late Mr. Edmund ...
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... principles will ftrengthen and confirm it : but where it is otherwife , fuch difcuffion must produce a contrary effect . Every general principle of the British conftitution operates in the inverse ratio upon Ireland ; and the Irish are ...
... principles will ftrengthen and confirm it : but where it is otherwife , fuch difcuffion must produce a contrary effect . Every general principle of the British conftitution operates in the inverse ratio upon Ireland ; and the Irish are ...
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... principle , dif- pofition , and intereft , determined anti - unionifts ; that with this body of men it had been long a practice to measure and appraise their own loyalty by traducing such of their fellow - fubjects as they ex- cluded ...
... principle , dif- pofition , and intereft , determined anti - unionifts ; that with this body of men it had been long a practice to measure and appraise their own loyalty by traducing such of their fellow - fubjects as they ex- cluded ...
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affections affured againſt anſwer body British Critic Britiſh empire Caſtle Catholic emancipation cauſe cenfure Charles O'Connor circumftances commiffion confequences confideration confidered confifts conftitution Cornwallis's defired difpleaſure Downing Street Dublin duty Earl EARL OF FINGALL Engliſh expreffed faid falfe fame fays fentiments feveral fhall fhew fhould fince firſt fituation fociety folicited fome fpirit FRANCIS PLOWDEN ftate fubject fubmit fuch fupport fyftem Government grofs Henry Addington hiftorian Hiftorical Review Hiftory hiftory of Ireland Hiley Addington himſelf honour impoffible intereft interview Ireland Iriſh Irish history Irish nation laft laſt lefs Leland letter Lord Cornwallis Majefty's manufcript Marquis meaſure miffion Minifter Minifter's moft moſt muſt myſelf neceffary neceffity Noble Lord obferved oppofite Parliament perfon perufal pleaſe poffible prefent prefs prefumed principle propofal Proteftant publiſhed purpoſe queſtion reaſon rebellion refifted refolution refpect Roman Catholics ſhall ſtate ſuch thefe themfelves theſe thofe thoſe truth undertaking union United Irishmen uſe whofe write