An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface to the Political constitutions, &c1756 - Ireland - 75 pages |
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... Lord Lieutenant , who fcorned to govern by the Influence of Party or Faction , or by any Means , to keep up Diftinctions , that had long broke and difunited the People ; thefe Powers , par- ticularly that of naming Governors and ...
... Lord Lieutenant , who fcorned to govern by the Influence of Party or Faction , or by any Means , to keep up Diftinctions , that had long broke and difunited the People ; thefe Powers , par- ticularly that of naming Governors and ...
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... Lord Lieutenant did all that was poffible to fupport the public Credit . He gave Orders , that the feveral furviving Bankers Notes fhould be taken as Payments in the Treafury . For this he got the Thanks of the Citizens . But , his ...
... Lord Lieutenant did all that was poffible to fupport the public Credit . He gave Orders , that the feveral furviving Bankers Notes fhould be taken as Payments in the Treafury . For this he got the Thanks of the Citizens . But , his ...
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... Lord Mayor in the Year 1750 , upon the 17th of March , and prefented him with a manufcript Copy of the following dedicatory Addrefs . He received me with Politeness and Hofpitality , and gave me to understand , he would lay it before ...
... Lord Mayor in the Year 1750 , upon the 17th of March , and prefented him with a manufcript Copy of the following dedicatory Addrefs . He received me with Politeness and Hofpitality , and gave me to understand , he would lay it before ...
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... Lord Mayor and one to each of the Sheriffs . It was accordingly done . By this Time , that Magiftrate had read the Manufcript , was , or feemed to be moved by the Contents of it , in a political and an humane Senfe ; enquired ...
... Lord Mayor and one to each of the Sheriffs . It was accordingly done . By this Time , that Magiftrate had read the Manufcript , was , or feemed to be moved by the Contents of it , in a political and an humane Senfe ; enquired ...
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... Lord Mayor , who received me with great Civility . I told him the Story and Fate of mine Addrefs ; he expreffed his Surprise , that he had never before heard of it . I prefented his Lordship with the Book . He politely accepted of it ...
... Lord Mayor , who received me with great Civility . I told him the Story and Fate of mine Addrefs ; he expreffed his Surprise , that he had never before heard of it . I prefented his Lordship with the Book . He politely accepted of it ...
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Page 35 - 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 61 - ... 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 38 - 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 62 - 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 23 - We are indeed to do to others as we would have them do to us...
Page 72 - 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 21 - ... 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 33 - ... 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 1 - 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 64 - 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.