Four Years of Irish History, 1845-1849Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1883 - 780 pages |
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agitation assailed Barry believe bishops Cahirmoyle Catholic Charles Gavan Duffy Committee Conciliation Hall Confederation considered Cork correspondence danger Daniel O'Connell Davis Davis's declared Dillon Dublin Duffy Dungarvan election enemies England English famine feeling friends gentlemen gentry Government Grattan Head Pacificator Henry Grattan honour hope Irish members Irishmen John Dillon John O'Connell journal Kilrush labour leader letter Liberator liberty Limerick London Lord John Russell McGee Meagher meeting ment Mitchel moral force nature never O'Connell's O'Gorman offence opinion Parliament party patriotism Peace Resolutions Peel physical force political popular present priest principle proposed prosecution Protestant purpose question railways remonstrance Repeal Association Repeal wardens resistance scarcely Seceders Secession sent Sheil Sir Robert Peel Smith O'Brien speech spirit suggested sympathy Thomas Darcy McGee thought tion truth wanted Whigs write wrote Young Irelanders
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Page 72 - to shepherds and rude wayfaring men, assumed a dress of ivory or marble beneath the hands of Phidias ; and when Athens arose— " a city such as vision Builds from the purple crags and silver towers Of battlemented clouds, as in derision Of kingliest masonry,
Page 699 - restore to her her native powers and her ancient constitution, this has been my ambition, and this ambition has been my crime. Judged by the law of England I know this crime entails the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains this crime, and justifies it.
Page 234 - operate against opinion, but force must be used against force:— " The soldier is proof against an argument, but he is not proof against a bullet. The man that will listen to reason, let him be reasoned with; but it is the weaponed arm of the patriot that can alone avail against battalioned despotism.
Page 699 - I hope to be able with a pure heart and perfect composure to appear before a higher tribunal—a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as of justice, will preside, and where, my Lords, many— many of the judgments of this
Page 723 - is magnificently conducted by clerks and other officers ; the landlord himself does not appear after the honest, comfortable English fashion, but lives in a private mansion hard by, where his name may be read inscribed on a brass-plate, like that of any other private gentleman."*
Page 611 - In God is our trust;' And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the
Page 234 - defence, or be it for the assertion of a nation's liberty, I look upon the sword as a sacred weapon. And if, my lord, it has sometimes reddened the shroud of the oppressor, like the anointed rod of the high priest, it has, at other times, blossomed into flowers to deck the freeman's brow. Abhor the sword and
Page 588 - I have acted in all this business from the first under a strong sense of duty. I do not repent of anything I have done; and I believe that the course which I have opened is only commenced. The Roman, who saw his hand
Page 424 - Defoe. This is what he saw in Westport :— " The town of Westport was in itself a strange and fearful sight, like what we read of in beleagured cities; its streets crowded with gaunt wanderers, sauntering to and fro with hopeless air and hunger-struck look—a mob of starved, almost naked, women around the poor-house clamouring for soup