The Life, Letters, and Speeches of Lord Plunket, Volume 2Smith, Elder & Company, 1867 - Catholic emancipation |
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... TO LORD NORBURY -O'CONNELL'S LETTER - THE " BOTTLE Riot ” — THE TRIAL - PLUNKET'S ADDRESS AND REPLY OF MR . NORTH - THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL'S DEFENCE IN PARLIAMENT VILLE . 75 CHAPTER III . LORD WELLESLEY'S POLICY - FRIENDSHIP OF LORD.
... TO LORD NORBURY -O'CONNELL'S LETTER - THE " BOTTLE Riot ” — THE TRIAL - PLUNKET'S ADDRESS AND REPLY OF MR . NORTH - THE ATTORNEY - GENERAL'S DEFENCE IN PARLIAMENT VILLE . 75 CHAPTER III . LORD WELLESLEY'S POLICY - FRIENDSHIP OF LORD.
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... FRIENDSHIP OF LORD WELLESLEY - TWO HIGH - MINDED STATESMEN - A LIFE - LONG FRIENDSHIP - LORD Wellesley's GRATI- TUDE THE SOLICITOR - GENERAL'S SPECIFIC — AN ALARMIST " LETTER - LETTER FROM BUCKINGHAM -ADVICE OF CANNING - TREATMENT OF ...
... FRIENDSHIP OF LORD WELLESLEY - TWO HIGH - MINDED STATESMEN - A LIFE - LONG FRIENDSHIP - LORD Wellesley's GRATI- TUDE THE SOLICITOR - GENERAL'S SPECIFIC — AN ALARMIST " LETTER - LETTER FROM BUCKINGHAM -ADVICE OF CANNING - TREATMENT OF ...
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... friends of emancipation , and a Protestant bishop was found amongst its advocates . William Bathurst , Bishop of Norwich , in the debate on Lord Donoughmore's motion in 1816 ( June 21 ) took occasion to say , " It is the duty of every ...
... friends of emancipation , and a Protestant bishop was found amongst its advocates . William Bathurst , Bishop of Norwich , in the debate on Lord Donoughmore's motion in 1816 ( June 21 ) took occasion to say , " It is the duty of every ...
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... friend , dissuaded him from going . Mr. Blake then called upon him . Mr. Grattan took him by the hand , - " Ah ! Mr ... friends in our younger days ; tell him I love him . How is the Duke of Norfolk ? pray say how much I respect him ...
... friend , dissuaded him from going . Mr. Blake then called upon him . Mr. Grattan took him by the hand , - " Ah ! Mr ... friends in our younger days ; tell him I love him . How is the Duke of Norfolk ? pray say how much I respect him ...
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... friends that his remains should be taken to Westminster Abbey . Blake asked my opinion , and I told him Mr. Grattan's wish to be buried on the lands given to him by the people of Ireland . I then went to him and found all the family ...
... friends that his remains should be taken to Westminster Abbey . Blake asked my opinion , and I told him Mr. Grattan's wish to be buried on the lands given to him by the people of Ireland . I then went to him and found all the family ...
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Page 47 - House ; and that every one of the Lords of Parliament of the United Kingdom, •and every Member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, in the First and all succeeding Parliaments, shall, until the Parliament of the United Kingdom shall otherwise provide, take the Oaths, and make and subscribe the Declaration, and take and subscribe the Oath now by law enjoined to be taken...
Page 43 - The one, that consciences are not to be forced, but to be won and reduced by the force of truth, with the aid of time and the use of all good means of instruction and persuasion. 2. The other, that the causes of conscience, when they exceed their bounds and grow to be matter of faction, lose their nature...
Page 352 - ... saying it is unworthy to govern itself, and to stultify the parliament, by saying it is incapable of governing the country. It is "the revival of the odious and absurd title of conquest ; it is the renewal of the abominable distinction between mother country and colony which lost America; it is the denial of the rights of nature to a great nation, from an intolerance of its prosperity.
Page 354 - She never conceded a point to you which she could avoid, or granted a favour which was not reluctantly distilled. They have been all wrung from her, like drops of her heart's blood, and you are not in possession of a single blessing except those which you derive from God, that has not been either purchased or extorted by the virtue of your own parliament from the illiberality of England...
Page 115 - I am, this moment, indebted for the enjoyment of the rights which I possess as a subject of these free countries; to him I owe the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and I venerate his memory with a fervour of devotion suited to his illustrious qualities and to his godlike acts.
Page 354 - Parliament and nation kept you down, shackled your commerce and paralysed your exertions, despised your characters, and ridiculed your pretensions to any privileges, commercial or constitutional. She has never conceded a point to you which she could avoid, nor granted a favour which was not reluctantly distilled.
Page 42 - The queen's injunction and admonition were issued to explain the oath for the express purpose of enabling the Roman Catholics, as well as other classes of dissenters, to take it. After ordering all offensive words, such as Papist, heretic, schismatic, to be forborne, under severe pains, she declares " that she does not pretend to any authority, save that which had at all times belonged to the imperial crown of this realm, namely, that she had the sovereign rule over all persons under God, so that...
Page 44 - the highest and most confidential offices in the state " were filled by roman-catholics ; and Mr. Hume ." states, as a thing notorious, that James the first " gave preferment indifferently to his roman-catholic
Page 272 - I loved should be visited with calamities which I have seen, with the unutterable horrors of civil war, I would run any risk, I would make any sacrifice, I would freely lay down my life.
Page 118 - Attorney-General has taunted these poor men with their want of taste ; the sashes and scarfs with which they decorated the statue were tawdry and vulgar it seems, and the mantua-maker of King William, as he termed him, did not adjust his millinery as well as he might. But, gentlemen...