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Страница 182 - I, AB, in the presence of God, do pledge myself to my country, that I will use all my abilities and influence in the attainment of an impartial and adequate representation of the Irish nation in parliament ; and as a means of absolute and immediate necessity in the establishment of this chief good of Ireland, I will endeavour, as much as lies in my ability, to forward a brotherhood of affection, an identity of interests, a communion of rights, and...
Страница 186 - Liberty, or at most amused himself in pacing the Measurement of the Edifice, and nicely limiting its Proportions; not reflecting that this Temple is truly Catholic, the ample Earth its Area, and the Arch of heaven its Dome.
Страница 46 - ... move and then to raise the world: we therefore wish for catholic emancipation without any modification, but still we consider this necessary enfranchisement as merely the portal to the temple of national freedom ; wide as this entrance is, wide enough to admit three millions, it is narrow when compared to the capacity and comprehension of our beloved principle, which takes in every individual of the Irish nation...
Страница 46 - We address you without any authority save that of reason, and if we obtain the coincidence of public opinion, it is neither by force nor stratagem, for we have no power to terrify, no artifice to cajole, no fund to seduce ; here we sit without mace or beadle, neither a mystery, nor a craft, nor a corporation ; in four words lies all our power — universal emancipation and representative legislature...
Страница 5 - ... similar societies in every quarter of the kingdom, for the promotion of constitutional knowledge, the abolition of bigotry in religion and politics, and the equal distribution of the rights of man through all sects and denominations of Irishmen.
Страница 35 - It was not till very lately that the part of the nation which is truly colonial, reflected that though their ancestors had been victorious, they themselves were now included in the general subjection ; subduing only to be subdued, and trampled upon by Britain as a servile dependency. When therefore the Protestants began to suffer what the Catholics had suffered...
Страница 5 - The people, when thus collected, will feel their own weight, and secure that power which theory has already admitted as their portion, and to which, if they be not aroused by their present provocations, to vindicate it, they deserve to forfeit their pretensions for ever.
Страница 3 - Irishmen, to come forward, and state what we feel to be our heavy grievance, and what we know to be its effectual remedy.
Страница 175 - ... and the poorer he is, the greater occafion he has for a vote to protect what little he has, which is neceflary not to his qualification merely, but to his very exiftence. He has a property in his labour, and in the value it will bring in the market, the field, or the manufactory...
Страница 45 - ... that gang, which misrepresents the king to the people, and the people to the king, traduces one half of the nation to cajole the other, and, by keeping up distrust and division, wishes to continue the proud arbitrators of the fortune and fate of Ireland.

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