The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798 |
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Page 102 - unto me, and have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged : oh bring thou me out of my distresses. Look upon my affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sins. Oh, keep my soul and
Page 321 - tale of blighting, consuming grief, that is founded Irving's most touching story of the Broken Heart. To one so true Moore refers in the lines :— " O make her a grave where the sunbeams rest, When they promise a glorious morrow, They'll shine o'er her sleep like a smile from the West, From her own loved island of sorrow.
Page 71 - upon the altar of slavery ; the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, which burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal emancipation.
Page 42 - as I did, for its vicious perfection ; for I must do it justice, it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency, well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the
Page 17 - which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge and the blessings of religion."! The Irish chieftains derived wealth and
Page 360 - There is no nation under the sun that love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish, or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof, although it be against themselves, so as they may have the benefit and protection of the law when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 316 - what have I to say why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce. But I have that to say, which
Page 279 - ,The boy stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled ; The flames that lit the battle's wreck, Shone round him o'er the dead.
Page 43 - and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 352 - wish to see -the Established Church of England great and powerful. I wish to see her foundations laid low and deep, that she may crush the giant powers of rebellious darkness. I would have her head raised up to that heaven to which she conducts us.