The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Volume 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1831 - 305 pages |
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Page 194 - In this sentence they seem to refer to Paine's notions on the subject of Reform:—" A government on the principles upon which constitutional governments, arising out of society, are established, cannot have the right of altering itself The bill which Mr. Pitt brought into Parliament some years ago, to reform Parliament, was on
Page 264 - Parliament." The oath, as at present framed, pledged every member " to persevere in his endeavours to obtain an equal, full, and adequate representation of all the people of Ireland,"—thus leaving free scope for those more extended projects of change which no less their confidence in themselves than their despair of
Page 297 - I ask of the world is the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for, as none who knows my motives, dares justify them, so let none who is ignorant of them dare to asperse them. Let my tomb remain uninscribed, till other times and other men shall learn to do justice to my memory." I quote these sentences from recollection, and the
Page 164 - I lodge with my friend Paine,—we breakfast, dine, and sup together. The more I see of his interior, the more I like and respect him. I cannot express how kind he is to me; there is a simplicity of manner, a goodness of heart, and a strength of
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Page 284 - In conversing, once, with Mr. Flood on the subject of the civil war between Charles I. and his people, Lord Chatham said, " There was mixed with the public cause, in that struggle, ambition, sedition, and violence ; but no man will persuade me that it was not the cause of liberty on one side and of tyranny on the other.
Page 20 - Of my lamented and ill-fated friend's excellent qualities I should never tire in speaking. I never knew so loveable a person, and every man in the army, from the general to the drummer, would cheer the expression. His frank and open manner, his universal benevolence, his
Page 271 - Irish will not long submit to such an interdict; they will not suffer a stranger to tell us on what proud terms English government will consent to rule in Ireland, still less to pronounce and dictate the incapacity of the natives as the terms of her dominion, and the base condition of our connexion and allegiance.
Page 101 - and, in the year 1800, as he himself tells us, while dining one day with Mr. Pitt, on being asked by that statesman some questions respecting his former officer, he answered that "Lord Edward was a most humane and excellent man, and the only really honest officer he ever knew in the army.