Specimens of Irish Eloquence: Now First Arranged and Collected, with Biographical Notices, and a PrefaceCharles Phillips W. Reynolds, 1819 - 435 страници |
Между кориците на книгата
Страница 5
... produce , was at least followed by , an heightening of the distemper , until , by a variety of ex- periments , that important country has been brought into her present situation ; -a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not ...
... produce , was at least followed by , an heightening of the distemper , until , by a variety of ex- periments , that important country has been brought into her present situation ; -a situation which I will not miscall , which I dare not ...
Страница 6
... produce our hand . It would be expected , that those who for many years had been active in such affairs should shew that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the principles of colony go- vernment ; and were capable of drawing ...
... produce our hand . It would be expected , that those who for many years had been active in such affairs should shew that they had formed some clear and decided idea of the principles of colony go- vernment ; and were capable of drawing ...
Страница 7
... produces timidity . I grew less anxious , even from the idea of my own insignificance . For , judging of what you are , by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself that you would not reject a reasonable proposition , because it had ...
... produces timidity . I grew less anxious , even from the idea of my own insignificance . For , judging of what you are , by what you ought to be , I persuaded myself that you would not reject a reasonable proposition , because it had ...
Страница 26
... produce it . Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcileable with an arbitrary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might ...
... produce it . Perhaps a more smooth and accommodating spirit of freedom in them would be more acceptable to us . Perhaps ideas of liberty might be desired more reconcileable with an arbitrary and boundless authority . Perhaps we might ...
Страница 34
... produce prejudices irreconcileable to the late exercise of our authority ; but that the spirit infallibly will continue ; and , continuing , will pro- duce such effects , as now embarrass us ; the second mode under consideration is , to ...
... produce prejudices irreconcileable to the late exercise of our authority ; but that the spirit infallibly will continue ; and , continuing , will pro- duce such effects , as now embarrass us ; the second mode under consideration is , to ...
Други издания - Преглед на всички
Често срещани думи и фрази
act of navigation act of parliament affect America appear argument assembly assertion attorney-general authority Berry bill body Britain British parliament called cause character church claim colonies commerce committee common consider constitution constitution of 1782 corruption court crime crown declaration declaratory duty eloquence empire enemies England English equal exercise favour feel freedom genius gentlemen give guilt heart honour House House of Commons human Ireland Irish government Irish parliament jury justice land legislature liberty means measure ment mind minister nation nature negociated never noble lord oath oath of supremacy object opinion parliament of England parliamentary peace persons petition plantations political present pretence pride principle privileges protection question reason religion renunciation repeal resolution revenue Roman Catholic shew spirit suffer suppose talents taxes tell thing tion tithe trade University of Dublin verdict virtue whilst wish
Популярни откъси
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.