 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 pagina’s
...constitution ; it is above your power ! ! ! "— Speech, 1800. Mr. Saurin to the same effect, said, " You may make the Union binding as a law ; but you...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." — ibid. A similar declaration from Earl Grey, we shall give in the third part. But it may be said,... | |
 | Esq. John Levy - 1843 - 236 pagina’s
...Saurin's sagacity, and he was one of the most sagacious of human beings (hear). He said, " You can make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make...and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere matter of prudence." He did not, however, when he said that, forget that the Union might pass in spite... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...declared that the House of Commons had no authority to pass the act of union. His words were — ' You may make the union binding as a law, but you cannot...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence.' " Such was the language of Saurin, which he never denied, retracted, or qualified ; on the contrary,... | |
 | John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - 1844 - 1008 pagina’s
...it is as follows :" You may make the Union binding as a law, but "you cannot make it obligatory upon conscience. It will be obeyed "as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the ab" struct a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere " question of prudence." Take... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1844 - 1016 pagina’s
...is as follows :" You may make the Union binding as a law, but " vou cannot make it obligatory upon conscience. It will be obeyed " as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the ab stract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere " question of prudence." Take... | |
 | John O'Connell - 1844 - 418 pagina’s
...OBLIGATORY ON CONSCIENCE. It Will be obeyed as long as England is strong : BUT RESISTANCE To fr WILT, BE ra THE ABSTRACT A DUTY : and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence" Such was the language of SADRIN, which he never denied, retracted, or qualified : on the contrary,... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1846 - 632 pagina’s
...nullity, and resistance to it would be a struggle against usurpation, and not a resistance against law. You may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. Sir Lawrence Parsons followed in the same strain, and pressed the Government severely. He boldly asserted... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1846 - 768 pagina’s
...nullity, and resistance to it would be a struggle against usurpation, and not a resistance against law. You may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. Sir Lawrence Parsons followed in the same strain, and pressed the Government severely. He boldly asserted... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1846 - 638 pagina’s
...nullity, and resistance to it would be a struggle against usurpation, and not a resistance against law. You may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot...be, in the abstract, a duty, and the exhibition of tliat resistance will be a mere question of prudence. Sir Lawrence Parsons followed in the same strain,... | |
 | Thomas Francis Meagher - 1853 - 382 pagina’s
...make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory in conscicnce. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong ; but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty." 'This high sentiment — the prophecy of genius — survived the wreck as the beacon of national salvation.... | |
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You may make it binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. 
