The History of Ireland from Its Union with Great Britain, in January 1801, to October 1810, Volume 1J. Boyce, 1811 - Ireland |
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... , though tran- scendently necessary undertaking , to stem the destructive confluence of deception , falsehood , and corruption . THE AUTHOR July 19 , 1811 . PREFACE . THE Author was once upbraided for having volun- vii.
... , though tran- scendently necessary undertaking , to stem the destructive confluence of deception , falsehood , and corruption . THE AUTHOR July 19 , 1811 . PREFACE . THE Author was once upbraided for having volun- vii.
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... necessary to develope the views , motives and consequences of instituting , coun- tenancing and keeping it on foot . It exceeds the function of the historian to Protest- trace the acts of government to the private in- ant As- cendancy ...
... necessary to develope the views , motives and consequences of instituting , coun- tenancing and keeping it on foot . It exceeds the function of the historian to Protest- trace the acts of government to the private in- ant As- cendancy ...
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... necessary to contradict his Majesty's Attorney General , in open Parliament , by declaring ; that he not only did not believe it to be true , but in several places he knew it not to be true . And when this law officer of the Crown was ...
... necessary to contradict his Majesty's Attorney General , in open Parliament , by declaring ; that he not only did not believe it to be true , but in several places he knew it not to be true . And when this law officer of the Crown was ...
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... necessary , that Mr. Pitt should convince Mr. Pitt's his Whig Neophites of the sincerity of his engage- cy against conspira ment , to leave the entire reform of Ireland to Catholic them . Messrs . Grattan and Ponsonby were there- pation ...
... necessary , that Mr. Pitt should convince Mr. Pitt's his Whig Neophites of the sincerity of his engage- cy against conspira ment , to leave the entire reform of Ireland to Catholic them . Messrs . Grattan and Ponsonby were there- pation ...
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... necessary to attend to circumstances in themselves trivial or contemptible . An apo thecary , named Giffard , notorious in the annals of Orangism , had quitted the medical for the- military profession , and was then captain in the City ...
... necessary to attend to circumstances in themselves trivial or contemptible . An apo thecary , named Giffard , notorious in the annals of Orangism , had quitted the medical for the- military profession , and was then captain in the City ...
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Page 267 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 14 - ALMIGHTY God, who art a strong tower of defence unto thy servants against the face of their enemies; We yield thee praise and thanksgiving for our deliverance from those great and apparent dangers wherewith we were compassed: We acknowledge it thy goodness that we were not delivered over as a prey unto them ; beseeching thee still to continue such thy mercies towards us, that all the world may know that thou art our Saviour...
Page 266 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Page iv - ... dignity. And I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majesty and his successors all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which I shall know to be against him or any of them.
Page 141 - And when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews.
Page 32 - ... certainly exceeds, in the comparative number of those it consigns to ruin and misery, every example that ancient...
Page 215 - 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 honor and love, and for whom I am proud to perish.
Page 33 - Yet surely it is sufficient to awaken sentiments of indignation and compassion in the coldest bosoms. These horrors are now acting with impunity. The spirit of impartial justice (without which law is nothing better than an instrument of tyranny) has for a time disappeared in this county, and the supineness of the magistracy of Armagh is become a common topic of conversation in every corner of the kingdom.
Page 45 - ... could be by any general description. When you endeavour to convey an idea of a great number of barbarians, practising a great variety of cruelties upon an incalculable multitude of sufferers, nothing defined or specific finds its way to the heart ; nor is any sentiment excited, save that of a general, erratic, unappropriated commiseration.
Page 2 - We are to appear in ten hours warning, or whatever ,' time is required, if possible (provided it is not hurtful to ourselves or families, and that we are served with a lawful summons from the Master,) otherwise we are fined as the company think proper.