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pose the civil state . To reconcile their interests , to adjust their differences , and to
render them happy and contented with their condition , is the duty no less than it
is the object of government . But what state or form of government can admit of ...
pose the civil state . To reconcile their interests , to adjust their differences , and to
render them happy and contented with their condition , is the duty no less than it
is the object of government . But what state or form of government can admit of ...
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... plunder of “ the State . ” Such is the pra & ical language of that great Noun of
Multitude - the borough - broker , demurring on the troubles of the times , which
he himself has principally caused , and lying at the door of a secretary full of
cores ...
... plunder of “ the State . ” Such is the pra & ical language of that great Noun of
Multitude - the borough - broker , demurring on the troubles of the times , which
he himself has principally caused , and lying at the door of a secretary full of
cores ...
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I am not fuperftitious - but I know that States , like individuals , are punished ; it is
to prevent their punishment we essayed ... the society comes to a state of
dissolution ; where that corruption is confined 10 those who administer the
country that ...
I am not fuperftitious - but I know that States , like individuals , are punished ; it is
to prevent their punishment we essayed ... the society comes to a state of
dissolution ; where that corruption is confined 10 those who administer the
country that ...
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... the benefits derivable by the people of Ireland , from her present system , and
those from an incorporative Union , we shall , in order to bring the matter to a
clear issue , consider the present Political , Commercial , and Civil state of Ireland
.
... the benefits derivable by the people of Ireland , from her present system , and
those from an incorporative Union , we shall , in order to bring the matter to a
clear issue , consider the present Political , Commercial , and Civil state of Ireland
.
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Want of Capital may be one , amidst other material reasons , for the backward
state of agriculture in Ireland . But this reason cannot apply to great Proprietors .
Experience , however , in all countries Thews that great Proprietors are feldom ...
Want of Capital may be one , amidst other material reasons , for the backward
state of agriculture in Ireland . But this reason cannot apply to great Proprietors .
Experience , however , in all countries Thews that great Proprietors are feldom ...
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Page 31 - XIX. 42.) at leaft in this our day, the things which belong unto our peace, before they are hid from our eyes. Never may fuch blindnefs happen to us, as befel the Jews; but may we (If. LV. 6, 7-) feek the Lord while he may be found, and call upon him -while he' is near ; and return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon us, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
Page 59 - ... out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth on their hands and knees, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves; they did eat the dead...
Page 36 - They therefore found this expedient, which they called an act of grace. There was a large tract of land, even to the half of the province of Connaught, that was separated from the rest by a long and a large river, and which by the plague and many massacres remained almost desolate.
Page 60 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 19 - We are indeed to do to others as we would have them do to us...
Page 70 - What is it to you, whether I make many or few boroughs ; my council may consider the fitness, if I require it ; but what if I had made forty noblemen, and four hundred boroughs, the more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
Page 15 - ... be the perfect freedom, in the fairest and fullest sense, of all descriptions of men, without distinction of religion. ' To this purpose we spoke; and speaking this to no purpose, withdrew. It now remains to add this supplication, However it may please the Almighty to dispose of princes or of parliaments, may the liberties of the people be immortal.
Page 29 - ... ftranger that is within thy gates : For in fix days the Lord made heaven and earth, the fea, and all that in them is, and refted the feventh day: wherefore the Lord blefled the fabbath day, and hallowed it.
Page 47 - That the undersigned state prisoners, in the three prisons of Newgate, Kilmainham, and Bridewell, engage to give every information in their power of the whole of the internal transactions of the United Irishmen; and that each of the prisoners shall give detailed information of every transaction that has passed between the United Irishmen...
Page 62 - Our pope, which art in Rome, cursed be thy name, perish may thy kingdom, hindered may thy will be, as it is in heaven, so in earth.
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| Title | An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface to the Political constitutions, &c An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface to the Political constitutions, &c, Charles Lucas |
| Author | Charles Lucas |
| Published | 1756 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 75 pages |
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