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" Should we exert ourselves", said they, "in reducing this country to order and civility, it must soon acquire power, consequence, and riches. The inhabitants will be thus alienated from England; they will cast themselves into the arms of some foreign power,... "
Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ... - Page 58
by Thomas Moore - 1824 - 376 pages
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 1

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1809 - 588 pages
...erect themselves into an independent and separate state. Let us rather connive at ( of course foment) their disorders, for a weak and disordered people...to detach themselves from the crown of England."* A nobleman of rank in the present government held similar language to me at Ratisbon, as we conversed...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - Ireland - 1815 - 558 pages
...erect themselves into an independent and separate state. Let us rather connive at their disorder ; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England."* May it not be then asked, have such been the effects of that mild and benignant policy •which extended...
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A Compendium of the History of Ireland: From the Earliest Period to the ...

John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...erect themselves into an independent and separate state. Let us rather connive at their disorder ; for a weak and disordered people never can attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England."* May it not then be asked, have such been the effects of that mild and benignant policy which extended...
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The works of Thomas Moore, Volume 11

Thomas Moore - 1832 - 346 pages
...assign the following reasons for their opposition : — " Should we exert ourselves," said they, " in reducing this country to order and civility, it...dissensions among their subjects, as the best means was sufficiently protected against any undue partiality to bis country by a Fellowship in the University...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1834 - 712 pages
...themselves into ' the arm of some foreign power, or, per' haps, erect themselves into an inde' pendent and separate state. Let us ' rather connive at their...to detach themselves from the ' crown of England.' I find Sir, that Sir Henry Sidney and Sir John Perrot, who perfectly understood the affairs of Ireland,...
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A Memoir on Ireland ; Native and Saxon, Volume 1

Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...soon acquire power, consequence, and riches. ' The inhabitants will thus be alienated from Eng' land ; they will cast themselves into the arms of ' some...to detach ' themselves from the Crown of England.' ' We ' find Sir Henry Sydney and Sir John Perrot, who ' perfectly understood the affairs of Ireland,...
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A Memoir on Ireland Native and Saxon

Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...some ' foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into ' an independent and separate state. LET us 1 RATHER CONNIVE AT THEIR DISORDERS ; for a ' weak and...to ' detach themselves from the Crown of England.' ' We find Sir Henry Sydney and Sir John Ferrol, ' who perfectly understood the affairs of Ireland,...
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Ireland and Her Agitators

William J. O'Neill Daunt - Home rule - 1867 - 342 pages
...foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate state. Let us therefore connive at their disorders ; for a weak and disordered...attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.' "* In the species of state-craft here described by the historian, we discern the policy that maintains...
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Ireland: Industrial, Political, and Social

John Nicholas Murphy - Ireland - 1870 - 548 pages
...be thus alienated from England ; they will cast themselves into the arms of some foreign power, or erect themselves into an independent and separate...attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.' a Such is the testimony of Sir Henry Sydney and Sir John Perrot, each of whom, in his turn, governed...
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Eighty-five Years of Irish History: 1800-1885

William J. O'Neill Daunt - Ireland - 1888 - 448 pages
...foreign power, or perhaps erect themselves into an independent and separate State. Let us therefore connive at their disorders ; for a weak and disordered...attempt to detach themselves from the crown of England.' " — LBLAND'S History of Ireland, book iv., chap. 3. In the species of statecraft here described by...
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