Treasury of Irish Eloquence: Being a Compendium of Irish Oratory and LiteratureMurphy & McCarthy, 1887 - 910 páginas |
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... charged with spilling more blood of innocent , and defenceless , and unoffending Catholics , than has ever been shed ... charges are not against individuals , but against the anti - Christian system of which they are made the wretched ...
... charged with spilling more blood of innocent , and defenceless , and unoffending Catholics , than has ever been shed ... charges are not against individuals , but against the anti - Christian system of which they are made the wretched ...
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... charge of a pious matron of high repu- tation for Christian knowledge , named Modwenna . This I mention because Alfred was an accomplished master of the harp , for which he was most probably indebted to his Hibernian tutors , from whom ...
... charge of a pious matron of high repu- tation for Christian knowledge , named Modwenna . This I mention because Alfred was an accomplished master of the harp , for which he was most probably indebted to his Hibernian tutors , from whom ...
Página 168
... charge of having for- feited the character of " a good subject , " by the zeal with which he defended his clients . But he remained steadfast and fearless in the conscious pride of having fulfilled his duty . " I am heavily cen- sured ...
... charge of having for- feited the character of " a good subject , " by the zeal with which he defended his clients . But he remained steadfast and fearless in the conscious pride of having fulfilled his duty . " I am heavily cen- sured ...
Página 175
... charge . Who does this ' one John Power , a Popish priest ' , turn out to be ? I find he is a Catholic clergyman , a Doctor of Divinity , a Titular Bishop in the diocese of Waterford . And yet I am now pressed to believe that this ...
... charge . Who does this ' one John Power , a Popish priest ' , turn out to be ? I find he is a Catholic clergyman , a Doctor of Divinity , a Titular Bishop in the diocese of Waterford . And yet I am now pressed to believe that this ...
Página 193
... charges against the Irish . They are accused of dirt . Remember , I repeat , that for centuries the Irish , especially in the rural districts , have been kept in the most extreme poverty , barely able to subsist , while their toil and ...
... charges against the Irish . They are accused of dirt . Remember , I repeat , that for centuries the Irish , especially in the rural districts , have been kept in the most extreme poverty , barely able to subsist , while their toil and ...
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Página 145 - He poured, to lord and lady gay, The unpremeditated lay: Old times were changed, old manners gone; A stranger filled the Stuarts' throne; The bigots of the iron time Had called his harmless art a crime.
Página 150 - DEAR Harp of my country ! in darkness I found thee, The cold chain of silence had hung o'er thee long, When proudly, my own Island Harp ! I unbound thee, And gave all thy chords to light, freedom, and song...
Página 786 - I impeach him in the name of the people of India, whose laws, rights and liberties he has subverted; whose properties he has destroyed; whose country he has laid waste and desolate. I impeach him in the name and by virtue of those eternal laws of justice which he has violated. I impeach him in the name of human nature itself, which he has cruelly outraged, injured and oppressed, in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life.
Página 873 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Página 785 - I believe, my lords, that the sun, in his beneficent progress round the world, does not behold a more glorious sight than that of men, separated from a remote people by the material bounds and barriers of nature, united by the bond of a social and moral community; all the Commons of England resenting, as their own, the indignities and cruelties, that are offered to all the people of India.
Página 60 - And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Página 611 - Has he completely done ? He was unparliamentary from the beginning to the end of his speech. There was scarce a word he uttered that was not a violation of the privileges of the House; but I did not call him to order — why? because the limited talents of some men render it impossible for them to be severe without being unparliamentary. But before I sit down I shall show him how to be severe and parliamentary at the same time.
Página 874 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world - it is the charity of its silence ! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 762 - ... cabinet so variously inlaid; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement ; here a bit of black stone, and there a bit of white ; patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans; whigs and tories; treacherous friends and open enemies ; that it was indeed a very curious show ; but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 755 - I stood near him ; and his face, to use the expression of the Scripture of the first martyr, ' his face was as if it had been the face of an angel.' I do not know how others feel, but if I had stood in that situation, I never would have exchanged it for all that kings in their profusion could bestow.