The Framework of Home RuleE. Arnold, 1911 - 354 pagina's |
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Pagina 34
... practical politics . I need only briefly summarize the incidents which ended in the year 1782 with the final loss of the American Colonies , and the simultaneous achievement by Ireland of an apparent legis- lative independence . To take ...
... practical politics . I need only briefly summarize the incidents which ended in the year 1782 with the final loss of the American Colonies , and the simultaneous achievement by Ireland of an apparent legis- lative independence . To take ...
Pagina 45
... practical victory , such as it was , Parliament , with all its flaming rhetoric , only the titular victory . They grasped the essential truth that Parliament was rotten , and that Ireland's future depended on its reform . Numbering some ...
... practical victory , such as it was , Parliament , with all its flaming rhetoric , only the titular victory . They grasped the essential truth that Parliament was rotten , and that Ireland's future depended on its reform . Numbering some ...
Pagina 46
... practical issue . For the present these proposals were outvoted , and the effective demand of the Volunteers , as framed in the great Convention held at Dublin in November , 1783 , was for a purification and reconstruction of Parliament ...
... practical issue . For the present these proposals were outvoted , and the effective demand of the Volunteers , as framed in the great Convention held at Dublin in November , 1783 , was for a purification and reconstruction of Parliament ...
Pagina 64
... practical sense after the Union than before the Union . The popular vote was submerged in a hostile assembly far away . The Irish peerage was regarded rightly by the Irish people as the very symbol of their own degradation , the Union ...
... practical sense after the Union than before the Union . The popular vote was submerged in a hostile assembly far away . The Irish peerage was regarded rightly by the Irish people as the very symbol of their own degradation , the Union ...
Pagina 72
... practical expediency to conciliate the conquered Province in view of the growing dis- affection of the American Colonies bordering it on the South . This disaffection , assuming ominous proportions on the enact- ment of the Stamp Act in ...
... practical expediency to conciliate the conquered Province in view of the growing dis- affection of the American Colonies bordering it on the South . This disaffection , assuming ominous proportions on the enact- ment of the Stamp Act in ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 50 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country— these were my objects.
Pagina 12 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...
Pagina 341 - But, at any rate, our first duty is to secure the well-being of our colonial countrymen; and if in the hidden decrees of that wisdom by which this world is ruled it is written that these countries are not...
Pagina 67 - Of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences in the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Pagina 224 - Any Bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected...
Pagina 241 - That the increase of taxation laid upon Ireland between 1853 and 1860 was not justified by the then existing circumstances.
Pagina 122 - We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.
Pagina 67 - Almost alone amongst mankind the cottier is in this condition, that he can scarcely be either better or worse off by any act of his own. If he were industrious or prudent, nobody but his landlord would gain ; if he is lazy or intemperate, it is at his landlord's expense.
Pagina 7 - Like a spear-point embedded in a living body, it inflamed all around it and deranged every vital function. It prevented the gradual reduction of the island by some native Clovis, which would necessarily have taken place if the Anglo-Normans had not arrived, and, instead of that peaceful and almost silent amalgamation of races, customs, laws, and languages which took place in England, and which is the source of many of the best elements in English life and character, the two nations remained in Ireland...
Pagina 57 - has been, in the first place, whether I was to have the command of the army really or nominally, and then whether the character and discipline of it were to be degraded and ruined in the mode of using it, either from the facility of one man, or from the violence and oppression of a set of men who have for more than twelve months employed it in measures which they durst not avow or sanction.