Memoirs of Captain Rock [pseud.]: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain. With Some Account of His AncestorsLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - 311 pàgines |
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Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ... Thomas Moore Visualització completa - 1824 |
Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ... Thomas Moore Visualització completa - 1824 |
Memoirs of Captain Rock: The Celebrated Irish Chieftain, with Some Account ... Thomas Moore Visualització completa - 1824 |
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Pàgina 100 - into the mountains. The Penal Code, enacted at this period, will for ever remain a monument of the atrocious perfection, to which the art of torturing his fellowcreatures may be brought by civilized man. It •was truly, as Burke calls it, " a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and
Pàgina 83 - For even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us," it will be granted that in the art of " citing Scripture to their purpose," neither Cromwell nor the other personage mentioned by Shakspeare can, in any degree, compare with their modern imitators, the Orangemen. CHAPTER XI.
Pàgina 157 - shall give it me now, and if not I will take it by force;" and who at last, by their rapacity, brought these priestly dues into such disrepute, that " men abhorred the offerings of the Lord."—1 Samuel, ii.
Pàgina 118 - to mortgage or otherwise alienate the reversion of that estate from his family for ever;—a regulation by which a father, contrary to the order of nature, is put under the power of his son, and through which an early dissoluteness is not only suffered but encouraged, by giving a pernicious privilege, the frequent
Pàgina 124 - Who would die a martyr to sense, in a country where the religion is folly ?" —every thing but relief, compassion, or even inquiry. It has been supposed that, in addition to his organization and command of the White-boys, my father also lent his powerful aid to the Oak-boys and Hearts-of-Steel; the former of whom
Pàgina 81 - account of the surrender of Drogheda (where, having been admitted, on promise of quarter, he began a slaughter of the garrison which lasted five days) is a precious sample of this perversion of religion. "I wish," he says, in concluding his letter to the parliament, "that all honest hearts may give the glory of this to God alone, to whom indeed the praise of
Pàgina 124 - persecution which has for seventy years divided the kingdom against itself. In these two circumstances lies the cure of insurrection: perform them completely, and you will have an affectionate poor, instead of oppressed and discontented vassals."—Tour of Ireland. Here is sound sense, spoken fifty years ago—and yet how little good it has done
Pàgina 59 - was :—" It was never before heard that any good subjects did dispute the king's power in this point. What is it to you whether I make many or few boroughs ? My council may consider the fitness if I require it: but what if I had created forty noblemen and four hundred boroughs ? The more the merrier, the fewer the better cheer.
Pàgina 63 - particular letters to me, I must tell you that your last public despatch has given me a great deal of contentment; and especially for the keeping off the envy of a necessary negative from me of those unreasonable Graces that people expected from me." The undisguised selfishness of Charles appears also on another occasion, where, in recommending to
Pàgina 45 - wrung him into undutifulness." — " Notwithstanding," says Spenser, " that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, yet, ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony * Elizabeth knew the art of turning Irish rebellions to account full as well as any of her successors. " Be not dismayed," she said, upon hearing that O'Neal meditated