Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volum 2H. Colburn, 1839 |
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Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volum 2 Henry Grattan Visualització completa - 1839 |
Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volum 2 Henry Grattan Visualització completa - 1839 |
Memoirs of the Life and Times of the Rt. Hon. Henry Grattan, Volum 2 Henry Grattan Visualització completa - 1839 |
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adjournment administration amendment appears army assure Attorney-General Britain British Burgh character Colonel conduct consequence constitutional corps Crown debate declared Dublin Castle Duke of Portland duty Earl England English Excellency exertions express favour feel Fitzgibbon Flood Foster friends gentlemen give Government granted HENRY GRATTAN honour hope House of Commons House of Lords independence Irish Parliament King kingdom Leinster letter liberty LIEUTENANT TO LORD Lord Buckingham Lord Charlemont LORD HILLSBOROUGH Lord Lieutenant Lord North Lord Shelburne Lordship Majesty Majesty's Majesty's Government measure meeting ment mentioned minister motion moved Mutiny Bill nation necessary object occasion opinion opposed Parliament of Ireland party patriotic persons Poyning's Law present principles Privy Council proceedings proposed question received recommended repeal resolutions Resolved unanimously respect revenue rights of Ireland satisfaction sentiments session sincere Sir Richard Heron spirit sugars tion virtue volunteers vote wish Yelverton yesterday
Passatges populars
Pàgina 180 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
Pàgina 41 - The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears ; Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Pàgina 41 - Bring the rathe Primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted Crow-toe, and pale Jessamine, The white Pink, and the Pansy freakt with jet, The glowing Violet, The Musk-rose, and the well-attir'd Woodbine, With Cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid Amaranthus all his beauty shed, And Daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the Laureate Hearse where Lycid lies.
Pàgina 193 - ... moved, .«' That leave be given to bring in heads of a bill for declaring the sole and exclusive right of the Irish Parliament to make laws in all cases whatsoever, internal and external, for the kingdom of Ireland.
Pàgina 261 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Pàgina 262 - That it is our unalterable determination to seek a redress of those grievances ; and we pledge ourselves to each other, and to our country, as Freeholders, Fellow-citizens, and Men of Honour, that we will at every ensuing election for our country, support those only, who will support us therein, and that we will use all constitutional means to make such our pursuit of redress, speedy and effectual.
Pàgina 237 - Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own, the sole legislature thereof; that there is no body of men competent to make laws to bind this nation, except the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland; nor any other parliament which hath any authority or power of any sort whatever in this country save only the parliament of Ireland.
Pàgina 237 - Ireland :" an act containing matter entirely irreconcilable to the fundamental rights of this nation. That we conceive this act, and the claims it advances, to be the great and principal cause of the discontents and jealousies in this kingdom. " To assure His Majesty, that His Majesty's Commons of Ireland do most sincerely wish that all bills which become law in Ireland should receive the approbation of His Majesty under the...
Pàgina 301 - Ireland, and having received, what is equal to the origin of one's being, the improvement of it there, and therefore full of love, and I might say, of fond partiality for Ireland, I should think any benefit to her, which should be bought with the real disadvantage of this kingdom, or which might tend to loosen the ties of connexion between them would be, even to our native country, a blessing of a very equivocal kind.
Pàgina 237 - Parliament which hath any authority or power of any sort whatsoever in this country, save only the Parliament of Ireland. To assure his Majesty, that we humbly conceive, that in this right the very essence of our liberties exists,— a right which we, on the part of the people of Ireland, do claim as their birthright, and which we cannot yield but with our lives.