Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefacePreface: "I take up with pleasure the gauntlet which has been flung down, and in asserting the oratorical equality of Ireland with either England or Scotland, taken individually, I refer to the present Volume as my proof, and boldly challenge the production of another which can bear the comparison." |
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They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all
monarchies , the people must in effect themselves , mediately or immediately ...
The colonies draw from you , as with their life - blood , these ideas and principles
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They took infinite pains to inculcate , as a fundamental principle , that , in all
monarchies , the people must in effect themselves , mediately or immediately ...
The colonies draw from you , as with their life - blood , these ideas and principles
.
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Some years ago , the repeal of a revenue act , upon derstood principle , might
have served to shew , that we intended an unconditional abatement of the
exercise of a taxing power . Such a measure was then sufficient to remove all
suspicion ...
Some years ago , the repeal of a revenue act , upon derstood principle , might
have served to shew , that we intended an unconditional abatement of the
exercise of a taxing power . Such a measure was then sufficient to remove all
suspicion ...
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... you ( for the ministry ) were laid contrary to the true principle of commerce ? Is
not the assurance given by that noble person to the colonies of a resolution to lay
no more taxes on them , an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them ?
... you ( for the ministry ) were laid contrary to the true principle of commerce ? Is
not the assurance given by that noble person to the colonies of a resolution to lay
no more taxes on them , an admission that taxes would touch and grieve them ?
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The refractory colonies , who refuse all composition , will remain taxed only to
your old impositions , which , however grievous in principle , are trifling as to pro .
duction . The obedient colonies in this scheme are heavily taxed ; the refractory ...
The refractory colonies , who refuse all composition , will remain taxed only to
your old impositions , which , however grievous in principle , are trifling as to pro .
duction . The obedient colonies in this scheme are heavily taxed ; the refractory ...
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Are their principles to be depraved , their passions sublimated , every finer motive
of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like
slaves ? Or is a liberal aud generous confidence in them to be the passport of ...
Are their principles to be depraved , their passions sublimated , every finer motive
of action extinguished by the inevitable consequences of thus treating them like
slaves ? Or is a liberal aud generous confidence in them to be the passport of ...
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Страница 74 - But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Страница 17 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the Antipodes and engaged under the frozen Serpent of the south.
Страница 17 - Arctic Circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of Polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place in the progress of their victorious industry. Nor is the equinoctial heat more discouraging to them than the accumulated winter of both the Poles.
Страница 72 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood...
Страница 73 - Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve, the unity of the empire.
Страница 73 - As long as you have the wisdom to keep the sovereign authority of this country as the sanctuary of liberty, the sacred temple consecrated to our common faith, wherever the chosen race and sons of England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience.
Страница 21 - Their love of liberty, as with you, fixed and attached on this specific point of taxing. Liberty might be safe, or might be endangered, in twenty other particulars, without their being much pleased or alarmed. Here they felt its pulse ; and as they found that beat, they thought themselves sick or sound.
Страница 39 - I am restoring tranquillity ; and the general character and situation of a people must determine what sort of government is fitted for them.
Страница 17 - As to the wealth which the colonies have drawn from the sea by their fisheries, you had all that matter fully opened at your bar. You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy; and yet the spirit by which that enterprising employment has been exercised ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem aud admiration.
Страница 73 - Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses, are the things that hold together the great contexture of this mysterious whole.