History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803Baily Brothers, 1854 - 477 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... proved injurious , and executive security was seriously endangered by the proceedings of turbulent men , who still , and without a plea for its necessity , maintained a threatening position , and , like the beggar in Gil Blas demanding ...
... proved injurious , and executive security was seriously endangered by the proceedings of turbulent men , who still , and without a plea for its necessity , maintained a threatening position , and , like the beggar in Gil Blas demanding ...
Pàgina 14
... prove that wild excitement alone was germane to a disposition to which graver and dignified pursuits were perfectly unsuited . After becoming an agent to the Catholic committee , and a principal originator of the United Irish Society ...
... prove that wild excitement alone was germane to a disposition to which graver and dignified pursuits were perfectly unsuited . After becoming an agent to the Catholic committee , and a principal originator of the United Irish Society ...
Pàgina 15
... prove the extent to which his revolutionary opinions reached : - " In recording the names of the members of the Club , I find I have strangely omitted that of a man whom , as well for his talents as his principles , I esteem as much as ...
... prove the extent to which his revolutionary opinions reached : - " In recording the names of the members of the Club , I find I have strangely omitted that of a man whom , as well for his talents as his principles , I esteem as much as ...
Pàgina 28
... proved that ruin must have resulted , the weak but ambitious envoy of the United Irishmen appears to have desired little beyond an emeute , no matter how disastrous that wild and unorganised outbreak should prove to the country and the ...
... proved that ruin must have resulted , the weak but ambitious envoy of the United Irishmen appears to have desired little beyond an emeute , no matter how disastrous that wild and unorganised outbreak should prove to the country and the ...
Pàgina 34
... proved -- that as many months must elapse before a fleet could be sent afloat . With the Dutch republic , matters were in a different state . In the Texel , five - and - twenty line - of - battle ships and frigates were lying , manned ...
... proved -- that as many months must elapse before a fleet could be sent afloat . With the Dutch republic , matters were in a different state . In the Texel , five - and - twenty line - of - battle ships and frigates were lying , manned ...
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History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1845 |
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1881 |
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798: With Memoirs of the Union, and ... William Hamilton Maxwell Visualització completa - 1845 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
afterwards Antrim appeared Arklow arms army arrest attack attempt Ballina body Britain British Captain Carnew castle Castlebar cavalry character Colonel column command committee consequence conspiracy corps death declared defeat Defenders disaffected dragoons Dublin effect Emmet endeavoured enemy Enniscorthy escape execution Father Murphy favour fencibles fire force French friends garrison gentlemen Gorey guns honour Humbert hundred infantry insurgents insurrection Ireland Irish John John Sheares Kilkenny Killalla killed King's kingdom leaders liberty Lieutenant Lord Castlereagh Lord Cornwallis Lord Edward Lord Edward Fitzgerald ment miles military militia morning murder Musgrave Neilson never night North Cork Militia officers parliament party persons pikes political prisoners proceeded Protestants rebellion rebels regiment retreat returned Roman Catholics royalists sanguinary shew shot Sir Charles Asgill soldiers spirit surrender taken tion took town treason troops union United Irishmen Vinegar-hill Wexford wounded wretched yeomanry yeomen
Passatges populars
Pàgina 112 - That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster...
Pàgina 428 - The man dies, but his memory lives. That mine may not perish, that it may live in the respect of my countrymen, I seize upon this opportunity to vindicate myself from some of the charges alleged against me. When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port — when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field in defence of their country and of virtue— this is my hope...
Pàgina 440 - I do declare, that I do not believe that the Pope of Rome, or any other foreign prince, prelate, person, state, or potentate, hath or ought to have any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence, directly or indirectly, within this realm.
Pàgina 427 - What have I to say, why sentence of death should not be pronounced on me, according to law ? — I have nothing to say that can alter your predetermination, nor that it will become me to say, with any view to the mitigation of that sentence which you are here to pronounce, and I must abide by.
Pàgina 4 - This society is constituted for the purpose of forwarding a brotherhood of affection, a communion of rights, and a union of power among Irishmen of every religious persuasion, and thereby to obtain a complete reform in the legislature, founded on the principles of civil, political, and religious liberty.
Pàgina 429 - ... by which he was actuated in the crime of which he was adjudged guilty. That a judge has thought it his duty so to have done, I have no doubt; but where is the boasted freedom of your institutions...
Pàgina 323 - ... death, and the supreme arbiter of both ? Have you not marked when he entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach ? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror ? How his glance, like the lightning of heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death ; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no...
Pàgina 428 - ... for there must be guilt somewhere, whether in the sentence of the Court or in the catastrophe, posterity must determine. A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune, and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated, but the difficulties of established prejudice ; the man dies, but his memory lives.
Pàgina 429 - I shall not forbear to vindicate my character and motives from your aspersions; and as a man to whom fame is dearer than life, I will make the last use of that life in doing justice to that reputation which is to live after me, and which is the only legacy I can leave to those I honour and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Pàgina 439 - I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...