Captain Rock Detected: Or, the Origin and Character of the Recent Disturbances, and the Causes, Both Moral and Political, of the Present Alarming Condition of the South and West of Ireland, Fully and Fairly Considered and Exposed |
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Page 445 - That it may please thee to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred, and are deceived; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 350 - ... performances ; I do not envy him ; I cannot imitate his conduct ; I cannot free myself from the heavy conviction that, whatever Ireland may have gained, or may be likely to gain, from the lesson which her privileged orders have been taught, her advantages are but a very slight recompense indeed for the spirit of cowardly ferocity which has been cherished and matured in her peasantry by the troubles in which they have been engaged ; a spirit at which the hearts of other men are sickened, but which...
Page 414 - Catholic priesthood; they have been ill treated, and they may yield for a moment to the influence of nature, though it be opposed to grace. This clergy, with few exceptions, are from the ranks of the people ; they inherit their feelings : they are not, as formerly, brought up under despotic governments ; and they have imbibed the doctrines of Locke and Paley, more deeply than those of Bellarmin, or even of Bossuet on the divine right of kings ; they know much more of the principles of the Constitution...
Page 335 - Who has ever looked upon a group of the peasantry of Ireland, and has not mourned for their desertion ? And to think of the love and the homage from which our absentees fly away ! I well remember when the name of , would have sent a trumpet tone into all hearts within the limits of an extensive county. I remember well, when there needed but that name to rouse, into any action of labour or of peril, as fearless and as gallant a host as ever the sun looked down upon. And he who could thus
Page 350 - ... sleeping family in sudden conflagration, and the prudent valour with which, when fight is to be maintained against men, Captain Rock's heroes so rapidly disperse. Let the missionary rejoice and exult in these martial and facetious performances ; I do not envy him ; I cannot imitate his conduct ; I cannot free myself from the heavy conviction that, whatever Ireland may have gained, or may be likely to gain, from the lesson which her privileged orders have been taught, her advantages are but a...
Page 290 - who sold for them the independance of their native " land, and the birth-right of their people : until that " period, tithes were almost unknown in this country, " and from the day of their introduction, we may date " the history of our misfortunes; they were not the only After some time, and within the same week, two answers appeared to the bishop's violent letter; one entitled, " Observations on the " Letter of JKL
Page 290 - should always have been odious ; they were the price paid by Henry II. and the legate Paparo to the Irish prelates, who sold for them the independence of their native land, and the birthright of their people...
Page 346 - Middleton, on a lease for his own life ; and (the lease of one of the persons to whom he had re-let the ground having expired) he gave a farm, containing about thirty acres, to his son, whom he wished to leave in possession of so much on his own demise. The tenants began to think that, if Mr. Sheehy died while they were in possession, they might have their leases continued under Lord Middleton, as their immediate landlord : and the resolution was adopted to murder an innocent kind-hearted old man,...
Page 348 - It happened, that there was resident near the scene of this achievement, a young barrister, who, as the missionary had not then published his Practice of Moral Sentiments, thought this victory a murder, and by his activity and intelligence succeeded in bringing the conqueror to trial, and to what used, in the old time, to be called justice ; but although the country people knew well who had performed the act, or, as plain men might say, perpetrated the murder, yet they used all means in their power...
Page 335 - wield at will" the energies of a fine people, before whom, I am convinced, if danger assailed him, ten thousand men would have made a wall of their dead bodies, rejected the God-like office to which he seemed called, of being the benefactor of such multitudes, for the effeminate and debasing pleasures that alienated him from all good ; and now, even in the neighbourhood of his magnificent but desolate mansion, his name is associated with evil, and pronounced in a tone that seems the very echo of...