The Irish Confederates, and the Rebellion of 1798 |
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... called Episcopal , for though they had bishops their clergy were all equal . There was a bishop to every parish . But he assumed no lordly pre- rogatives nor splendor . He was poor like the people whom he instructed . This fact may ...
... called Episcopal , for though they had bishops their clergy were all equal . There was a bishop to every parish . But he assumed no lordly pre- rogatives nor splendor . He was poor like the people whom he instructed . This fact may ...
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... called the Pale . But as they extend- ed their explorations , they found that it was all a goodly land , worthy of conquest and pillage . The English knight , pricking over the hills of Connaught and Munster , reined in his horse on the ...
... called the Pale . But as they extend- ed their explorations , they found that it was all a goodly land , worthy of conquest and pillage . The English knight , pricking over the hills of Connaught and Munster , reined in his horse on the ...
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... called upon by the voice of God to exterminate an idolatrous nation . They were fond of quoting the texts , " That thy feet may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies , and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red with the same , " and ...
... called upon by the voice of God to exterminate an idolatrous nation . They were fond of quoting the texts , " That thy feet may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies , and that the tongue of thy dogs may be red with the same , " and ...
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... called off to America , and there remained in the whole island not more than five thousand soldiers to repel an invasion , or to suppress domestic insurrection . The loyal inhabitants be- came alarmed . Only eighteen years before ...
... called off to America , and there remained in the whole island not more than five thousand soldiers to repel an invasion , or to suppress domestic insurrection . The loyal inhabitants be- came alarmed . Only eighteen years before ...
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... called by Burke " the Irish Rev- olution , " obtained in 1782 for Ireland , what the Revolu- tion of 1688 had secured for England . It was obtained by union and firmness , without the shedding of one drop of blood . This success showed ...
... called by Burke " the Irish Rev- olution , " obtained in 1782 for Ireland , what the Revolu- tion of 1688 had secured for England . It was obtained by union and firmness , without the shedding of one drop of blood . This success showed ...
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Page 321 - Let them and me repose in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, — then, and not till then, — let my epitaph be written ! I have done.
Page 73 - African sun may have burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery — the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust...
Page 73 - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation.
Page 104 - Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me ; for I am desolate and afflicted.
Page 268 - ... any hardship. These were the men, however, of whom it was presently observed, that they could be well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but the canopy of heaven.
Page 322 - MY DEAREST RICHARD, — I find I have but a few hours to live, but if it was the last moment, and that the power of utterance was leaving me, I would thank you from the bottom of my heart for your generous expressions of affection and forgiveness to me. If there was any one in the world in whose breast my death might be supposed not to stifle every mark of resentment, it might be you.
Page 364 - For there is no nation of people under the sun that doth 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 protection and benefit of the law when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 70 - This polyglot of wealth, this museum of curiosities, the pension list, embraces every link in the human chain, every description of men, women, and children, from the exalted excellence of a Hawke or a Rodney, to the debased situation of the lady who humbleth herself that she may be exalted.
Page 45 - 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 oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement in them of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 356 - I 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. I would have her open wide her hospitable gates by a noble and liberal comprehension ; but I would have no breaches in her wall ; I would have her cherish all those, who are within, and pity all those, who are without ; I would have her a common blessing...