Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published During the Administration of Lord Townshend in Ireland1773 - Ireland - 354 pages |
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Other editions - View all
Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published ... Hector Langrische No preview available - 2015 |
Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published ... Hector Langrische No preview available - 2018 |
Baratariana: A Select Collection of Fugitive Political Pieces, Published ... Hector Langrische No preview available - 2018 |
Common terms and phrases
abfurd addrefs adminiſtration afferted affift againſt alſo aſk Barataria becauſe beſt bill cauſe character confequence confider confideration confiftency conftitution council Crown Derry difgrace eſtabliſhed exerciſe expence faid fame favour fecurity feems feffion fenate fent fentiments fhall fince firft firſt foldier fome fometimes foon fpirit FREEMAN'S JOURNAL friends ftate ftill fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuggeftion fuperior fupply fuppofe fupport fure Governor greateſt himſelf honour houfe Houſe of Commons inftance infult intereft Ireland king kingdom La Mancha laft laſt leaſt LETTER Lord Townshend lordship Majefty Majefty's meaſure ment minifters miniftry moft money-bill moſt muft muſt narch nation neceffary never obferve occafion oppofed oppofition parliament perfon prefent privy council promiſe propoſed prorogation proteft purchaſe purpoſe queſtion racter raiſed reaſon refolution refpect repreſentative Sancho ſhall ſhould ſome ſpeak ſtate ſuch thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion uſe whofe whoſe wiſh yourſelf
Popular passages
Page 254 - ... to exert any power but that of rejecting; they will not permit the least alteration or amendment to be made by the lords to the mode of taxing the people by a- money bill ; under which appellation are included all bills, by which money is directed to be raised upon the subject, for any purpose or in any shape whatsoever...
Page 265 - Townshend, for ever on the rack of exertion, but rather lightened upon the subject, and reached the point by the flashings of the mind, which, like those of his eye, were felt but could not be followed. Upon the whole, there was in this man something that could create, subvert, or reform...
Page 327 - ... the posts of our light infantry, waiting for an opportunity to fall upon our rear. This, Sir, was the situation of things, when I was told, in the action, that I commanded...
Page 264 - England. The sight of his mind was infinite ; and his schemes were to affect, not England, not the present age only, but Europe and posterity. Wonderful were the means...
Page 264 - England — his ambition was fame. Without dividing, he destroyed party ; without corrupting, he made a venal age unanimous. France sunk beneath him.
Page 339 - The fceptre fell among his domeftics, who became minifters to him, and incumbrances to us : thus the indolence of the executive power became a rent-charge upon the nation.
Page 265 - Corruption imagined, indeed, that fhe had found defects in this ftatefman, and talked much of the inconiitlency of his glory, and much of the ruin of his victories ; but the hiftory of his country, and the calamities of the enemy, anfwered and refuted her. Nor were his political abilities his only talents.