Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish AffairsMacmillan, 1881 - 439 strán (strany) |
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advantage affairs amongst authority BEACONSFIELD Bill body Bristol Britain Burke cause Church Church of England civil clergy conduct considered constitution Crown dear sir disposition dissenters duty EDMUND BURKE effect enemies England English establishment evil exclusion faction favour friends gentlemen give Government honour House of Commons interest Ireland Irish Jacobinism justice king kingdom land least letter liberty Lord Lord Fitzwilliam Lord North Lord-Lieutenant manner matter MATTHEW ARNOLD means measure ment mind ministers nation nature never oath object obliged opinion oppression Papists Parliament Parliament of England Parliament of Ireland party passion penal penal laws persecution persons political Popery Popish principles privileges proper Protestant Protestant ascendency reason regard religion religious repeal Revolution Roman Catholics sort spirit statutes suffer suppose sure temper things thought tion toleration trade true whilst whole wholly wish zeal
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Strana 24 - ... in all forms of government the people is the true legislator; and whether the immediate and instrumental cause of the law be a single person or many, the remote and efficient cause is the consent of the people, either actual or implied; and such consent is absolutely essential to its validity.
Strana 140 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe ;^not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey...
Strana 130 - They stint the trust of the old revenue, given for two years to all the king's predecessors, to six months. The British parliament, in a former session, frightened into a limited concession by the menaces of Ireland, frightened out of it by the menaces of England...
Strana 132 - Parliament to offer terms in victory, and not to wait the well-chosen hour of defeat, for making good by weakness and by supplication a claim of prerogative, pre-eminence, and authority. Instead of requiring it from me, as a point of duty, to kindle with your passions, had you all been as cool as I was, you would have been saved from disgraces and distresses that are unutterable.
Strana 145 - A party in this nation, enemies to the system of the revolution, were in opposition to the government of king William. They knew that our glorious deliverer was an enemy to all persecution. They knew that he came to free us from slavery and popery, out of a country, where a third of the people are contented Catholics under a Protestant government.
Strana 226 - And will you preserve unto the bishops and clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain unto them, or any of them? King or queen: All this I promise to do.
Strana 175 - ... denominations : and therefore arbitrarily to class men under general descriptions, in order to proscribe and punish them in the lump for a presumed delinquency, of which perhaps but a part, perhaps none at all, are guilty, is indeed a compendious method, and saves a world of trouble about proof; but such a method, instead of being law, is an act of unnatural rebellion against the legal dominion of reason and justice ; and this vice, in any constitution that entertains it, at one time or other...
Strana 124 - I canvassed you through your affairs, and not your persons. I was not only your representative as a body ; I was the agent, the solicitor of individuals. I ran about wherever your affairs could call me ; and in acting for you I often appeared rather as a ship-broker, than as a member of parliament. There was nothing too laborious, or too low for me to undertake. The meanness of the business was raised by the dignity of the object.
Strana 150 - I vow to God I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for opinions I disliked, and so to get rid of the man and his opinions at once, than to fret him with a feverish being, tainted with the jail distemper of a contagious servitude, to keep him above ground, an animated mass of putrefaction; corrupted himself, and corrupting all about him.
Strana 131 - This scene of shame and disgrace has, in a manner whilst I am speaking, ended by the perpetual establishment of a military power, in the dominions of this crown, without consent of the British legislature, contrary to the policy of the constitution, contrary to the declaration of right: and by this your liberties are swept away along with your supreme authority — and both, linked together from the beginning, have, I am afraid, both together perished for ever. What ! gentlemen, was I not to foresee,...