Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O'Connell, M.P.Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand., 1848 |
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... Catholic tyranny by the simple might of public opinion . To say that as a public leader he had no faults , and made no mistakes , would be to ascribe to him more than human exemption from error . But it is undeniable that his mistakes ...
... Catholic tyranny by the simple might of public opinion . To say that as a public leader he had no faults , and made no mistakes , would be to ascribe to him more than human exemption from error . But it is undeniable that his mistakes ...
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... Catholic disabilities was at its greatest height , I was just at the age when political impressions the most strong and permanent are generally imbibed . In every company which I entered , the great Catholic leader was spoken of , and ...
... Catholic disabilities was at its greatest height , I was just at the age when political impressions the most strong and permanent are generally imbibed . In every company which I entered , the great Catholic leader was spoken of , and ...
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... Catholic cause , were Feargus O'Connor , and his elder brother , Arthur O'Connor , of Fort Robert . The Tory atmosphere I breathed did not , how- ever , influence my sentiments . The knowledge that the Catholic body were oppressed , was ...
... Catholic cause , were Feargus O'Connor , and his elder brother , Arthur O'Connor , of Fort Robert . The Tory atmosphere I breathed did not , how- ever , influence my sentiments . The knowledge that the Catholic body were oppressed , was ...
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... Catholic question suc- ceeded times of stirring agitation . One great in- justice was removed ; but the tithe system still oppressed the Irish people ; and the country was withering from the baneful influences of the Union . O'Connell's ...
... Catholic question suc- ceeded times of stirring agitation . One great in- justice was removed ; but the tithe system still oppressed the Irish people ; and the country was withering from the baneful influences of the Union . O'Connell's ...
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... Catholics . One night I said to him , “ There is Howard , of Corby , among the ranks of our opponents . " 66 ' Ay , " he replied , indignantly , " only for us Irish he wouldn't have a seat in Parliament , and the grateful return he ...
... Catholics . One night I said to him , “ There is Howard , of Corby , among the ranks of our opponents . " 66 ' Ay , " he replied , indignantly , " only for us Irish he wouldn't have a seat in Parliament , and the grateful return he ...
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Página 196 - First, sir, permit me to observe that the use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment ; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again : and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
Página 114 - We thank you for your noble and spirited, though hitherto ineffectual efforts in defence of the great constitutional and commercial rights of your country. Go on! The almost unanimous voice of the people is with you, and in a free country the voice of the people must prevail. We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights ; and in so just a pursuit we should doubt the being of a Providence...
Página 164 - But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.
Página 195 - America, gentlemen say, is a noble object. It is an object well worth fighting for. Certainly it is, if fighting a people be the best way of gaining them. Gentlemen in this respect will be led to their choice of means by their complexions and their habits. Those who understand the military art will, of course, have some predilection for it. Those who wield the thunder of the state may have more confidence in the efficacy of arms.
Página 160 - ... that it may be declared and enacted, that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom...
Página 49 - I should have smil'd and welcom'd death. But thus to perish by a villain's hand ! Cut off from nature's and from glory's course, Which never mortal was so fond to run.
Página 58 - Here lies our Sovereign Lord the King, Whose word no man relies on ; Who never said a foolish thing, And never did a wise one.
Página 166 - Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea, I might hail thee with prouder, with happier brow, But oh ! could I love thee more deeply than now...
Página 293 - Ireland to the amount of near three millions in the manufactured articles of linen and linen yarn, and between two and three millions in provisions and cattle, besides corn and other articles of produce.
Página 294 - There is not,' said his lordship, ' a nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in manufactures, with the same rapidity in the same period as Ireland