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" The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes. "
The Speeches of Charles Phillips, Esq: Delivered at the Bar, and on Various ... - Page 109
by Charles Phillips - 1821 - 249 pages
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Joyce, Race, and Empire

Vincent J. Cheng - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 362 pages
...Stephen recalls the Orange toast to King Billy: "Glorious, pious and immortal memory" (U 2.273) ~ "To the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the Great and Good King William III, who saved us from popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes" (Gifford, "Ulysses"...
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Europe: A History

Norman Davies - History - 1996 - 1428 pages
...through Catholic quarters to the whistle and beat of fife and drum. And the old toast is raised: "To the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William, who saved us from popery, slavery, knavery, brass money, and wooden shoes. And a fig to the Bishop of Cork!" 1576-1612),...
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Verse in English from Eighteenth-century Ireland

Andrew Carpenter - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 662 pages
...allegiance so as to be always supporting the winning side. 44. Orange toasts included the words: To the glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William', and were drunk in glasses filled 'to the brim'. 1. Despite the existence of the Royal College of Physicians...
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The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction

Charles Fanning - Literary Criticism - 468 pages
...to propose a toast. "Fancying that he was in very different company," he raises his glass "for the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William, who freed us from pope and popery, brass money and wooden shoes." The result is "a general rush, ... to...
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Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation's Soul, 1500-2000

Marcus Tanner - History - 2003 - 532 pages
...Majesty the King on the occasion of his silver jubilee they should remember the tribute they owed to the glorious pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William of Orange.'™ The Jubilee was Ulster's Protestant riposte to the 1 932 Eucharistic Congress, celebrated...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 26

1842 - 782 pages
...Athlone, renowned for the great gun into which all who dared once upon a day to refuse to drink the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William, who saved us from popery, slavery, brass money, and wooden shoes, were to be "crammed, jammed, and Jammed," and fired...
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American Illustrated Magazine, Volume 27

1889 - 794 pages
...much of it as may is here given, for the sake of the social illustration connected therewith : " The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from popery, slavery, arbitrary power,...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 25

Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1018 pages
...Justice Burke, Chief Justice Doherty ; and I used to come down after dinner, mount a chair, and drink the glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William. I have the most lively recollection of the style of conversation, the profound hatred and distrust...
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Folklore, Volumes 29-30

Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1918 - 700 pages
..." Every man unbuttoned the knees of his breeches and drank the toast on his bare joints " : " ' The glorious, — pious, — and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from popery, slavery, arbitrary power,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1907 - 760 pages
...quote his words : — "This most ancient and unparalleled --.ntiment ran thus : — Orange Toast. The glorious, pious, and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power,...
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