Irish Eloquence: The Speeches of the Celebrated Irish Orators, Philips, Curran and Grattan. To which is Added, the Powerful Appeal of Robert Emmett, at the Close of His Trial for High Treason |
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... liberty was to be dissolved . Only reflect on the state of the world at that moment ? All around him was convulsed , the very foundations of the earth seemed giving way , the comet was let loose that , " from its fiery hair shook ...
... liberty was to be dissolved . Only reflect on the state of the world at that moment ? All around him was convulsed , the very foundations of the earth seemed giving way , the comet was let loose that , " from its fiery hair shook ...
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... liberty ( may no crime avert the omen ! ) seems to have arisen ! Sup- pose he was a Catholic , could this have been ? Suppose Catho- lics did not follow him , could this have been ? Did the Catholic Cortes inquire his faith when they ...
... liberty ( may no crime avert the omen ! ) seems to have arisen ! Sup- pose he was a Catholic , could this have been ? Suppose Catho- lics did not follow him , could this have been ? Did the Catholic Cortes inquire his faith when they ...
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... liberty . When your own Parliament ( which I trust in heaven we may yet see again ) voted you the right of franchise , and the right of purchase , it gave you , if you are not false to yourselves , a cer- tainty of your emancipation ...
... liberty . When your own Parliament ( which I trust in heaven we may yet see again ) voted you the right of franchise , and the right of purchase , it gave you , if you are not false to yourselves , a cer- tainty of your emancipation ...
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... liberty , and wrung a re- luctant tribute even from discomfited oppression . I saw her spurning alike the luxuries that would enervate , and the legions that would intimidate ; dashing from her lips the poisoned cup of European ...
... liberty , and wrung a re- luctant tribute even from discomfited oppression . I saw her spurning alike the luxuries that would enervate , and the legions that would intimidate ; dashing from her lips the poisoned cup of European ...
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... the com mand . - Liberty unsheathed his sword , necessity stained , victory returned it . If he had paused here , history might have doubted what station to assign him , whether at the head 34 SPEECH AT DINAS ISLAND .
... the com mand . - Liberty unsheathed his sword , necessity stained , victory returned it . If he had paused here , history might have doubted what station to assign him , whether at the head 34 SPEECH AT DINAS ISLAND .
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Page 77 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar...
Page 105 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 134 - Subsidiary to this, there wa-s no creed that he did not profess, there was no opinion that he did not promulgate ; in the hope of a dynasty, he upheld the crescent ; for the sake of a divorce, he bowed before the cross : the orphan of St. Louis, he became the adopted child of the republic : and with a parricidal ingratitude, on the ruins both of the throne and the tribune, he reared the throne of his despotism.
Page 192 - The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance ; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
Page 288 - British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of Universal Emancipation.
Page 134 - Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne, a sceptred hermit, wrapt in the solitude of his own originality. A mind bold, independent, and decisive — a will, despotic in its dictates — an energy...
Page 34 - No people can claim, no country can appropriate him ; the boon of Providence to the human race, his fame is eternity, and his residence creation. Though it was the defeat of our arms, and the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless the convulsion in which he had his origin. If the heavens thundered and the earth rocked, yet, when the storm...