 The greatest difficulty which I experience, is to control the violence of our loyal friends, who would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent and...  Ireland and Her Agitators - Page 243by William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1867 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English literature - 1859 - 622 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent...being, or of having been, disaffected; and, indeed, evsry Roman Catholic of influence is in great danger.' • The same humane and temperate policy which... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1863 - 704 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough), into a more violent...Robespierre. The vilest informers are hunted out from o Lord Cornwallis to Duke of Portland, July 8, 1798. — Cornwallis Correspondence, vol. ii. p-356.... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Great Britain - 1864 - 540 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, Orod knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent...every Roman Catholic of influence is in great danger. The same humane and temperate policy which was adopted by Lord Cornwallis had been acted upon by Sir... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - Electronic books - 1864 - 552 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent and intolerable tyranny than that of Eobespierre. The vilest informers are hunted out from the prisons to attack, by the most barefaced... | |
 | William Massey - Great Britain - 1865 - 470 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which, God knows, is of itself bad enough) into a more violent...from the prisons to attack, by the most barefaced perj ury, the lives of all who are suspected of being, or of having been, disaffected; and, indeed,... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1888 - 540 pages
...frantic ferocity which Lord Cornwallis strove in vain to check. ' The vilest informers,' he wrote, ' are hunted out from the prisons to attack, by the...every Roman Catholic of influence is in great danger.' ' How any Catholics at all could venture to raise their voices against a Government measure, their... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 pages
...crying, is going on as usual, and holds out a comfortable prospect to a man of any feeling." (i6th Nov.) "The vilest informers are hunted out from the prisons...every Roman Catholic of influence is in great danger." The plans of the Unionists had been laid so well, and the means in their hands for bribery were no... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - Ireland - 1888 - 448 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which God knows is of itself bad enough) into a more violent...great danger. You will have seen by the addresses the Catholics of Dublin if they had taken their revenge on the Northerns by getting up a formidable... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - Ireland - 1888 - 562 pages
...would, if I did not keep the strictest hand upon them, convert the system of martial law (which God knows is of itself bad enough) into a more violent...or of having been, disaffected; and, indeed, every Rornan Catholic of influence is in great danger. You will have seen by the addresses the Catholics... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1890 - 684 pages
...tyranny ' more violent and intolerable' than that of Robespierre ; 'that the vilest informers were hunted out from the prisons, to attack, by the most...suspected of being, or of having been disaffected,' and that ' every Boman Catholic of influence was in great danger.'1 The fact that the Lord Lieutenant,... | |
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