British Eloquence: Daniel O'Connell. Lord Palmerston. Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke. The right honorable Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. Lord RoseberyCharles Kendall Adams, John Alden G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900 |
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... French Revolution was to stir to many things strange to the world of 1775 . The facts of O'Connell's life arrange them- selves concisely from his birth , August 6 , 1775 , from a good family of County Kerry ; his French education at S ...
... French Revolution was to stir to many things strange to the world of 1775 . The facts of O'Connell's life arrange them- selves concisely from his birth , August 6 , 1775 , from a good family of County Kerry ; his French education at S ...
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... pretence " means " purpose " ; had it been French and not Eng- lish , we might have been inclined to respect his judgment , but in point of English we venture 66 to differ with him ; we told him purpose IN DEFENCE OF JOHN MAGEE . 19.
... pretence " means " purpose " ; had it been French and not Eng- lish , we might have been inclined to respect his judgment , but in point of English we venture 66 to differ with him ; we told him purpose IN DEFENCE OF JOHN MAGEE . 19.
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... battle was in suspense - he who died the martyr of victory he who commenced the career of glory on the land , and taught French insolence , - than which there is nothing so permanent— even transplanted 62 DANIEL O'CONNELL .
... battle was in suspense - he who died the martyr of victory he who commenced the career of glory on the land , and taught French insolence , - than which there is nothing so permanent— even transplanted 62 DANIEL O'CONNELL .
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... French inso- lence , that the British and Irish soldier was as much his superior by land , as the sailor was confessedly by sea - he , in short , who com- menced that career which has since placed the Irish Wellington on the highest ...
... French inso- lence , that the British and Irish soldier was as much his superior by land , as the sailor was confessedly by sea - he , in short , who com- menced that career which has since placed the Irish Wellington on the highest ...
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... French law prevails in Canada , and there is not a lawyer at the Irish Bar , except , perhaps , the Attorney - General , who is suffi- ciently acquainted with that law to know how far any In defencE OF JOHN MAGEE . 73.
... French law prevails in Canada , and there is not a lawyer at the Irish Bar , except , perhaps , the Attorney - General , who is suffi- ciently acquainted with that law to know how far any In defencE OF JOHN MAGEE . 73.
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Seite 274 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd moon ; Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowne'd honour by the locks ; So he that doth redeem her thence might wear Without corrival all her dignities : But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! Wor.
Seite 263 - d horse — Instructs the beast to know his native force; To take the bit between his teeth, and fly To the next headlong steep of anarchy.
Seite 231 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
Seite 268 - Is work for rebels who base ends pursue: At once divine and human laws control, And mend the parts by ruin of the whole. The tampering world is subject to this curse, To physic their disease into a worse.
Seite 221 - ... a position. But I contend that we have not in our foreign policy done anything to forfeit the confidence of the country. We may not, perhaps, in this matter or in that, have acted precisely up to the opinions of one person or of another — and hard indeed it is, as we all know by our individual and private experience, to find any number of men agreeing entirely in any matter, on which they may not be equally possessed of the details of the facts and circumstances, and reasons, and conditions...
Seite 28 - In plain truth,' he said, in language which there is every reason to believe expressed his deepest conviction, 'every religion is good — every religion is true to him who in his due caution and conscience believes it. There is but one bad religion, that of a man who professes a faith which he does not believe ; but the good religion may be, and often is, corrupted by the wretched and wicked prejudices which admit a difference of opinion as a cause of hatred.
Seite 220 - We have shown the example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it; while at the same time every individual of each class is constantly trying to raise himself in the social scale...
Seite 220 - We have shown that liberty is compatible with order; that individual freedom is reconcilable with obedience to the law. We have shown the example of a nation, in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it; while at the same time every individual of each class is constantly striving to raise himself in the social...
Seite 221 - England ; and whether, as the Roman in days of old held himself free from indignity when he could say, ' Civis Romuuiv* sum' so also a British subject, in whatever land he may be, shall feel confident that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong.
Seite 62 - Well, / do say, the cold and cruel Camden. Why, on one circuit, during his administration, there were one hundred individuals tried before one judge ; of these ninety-eight were capitally convicted, and ninety-seven hanged! I understand one escaped ; but he was a soldier who murdered a peasant, or something of that trivial nature — ninety-seven victims in one circuit...