The age of Pitt and Fox, by the author of 'Ireland and its rulers'., 1권1846 - 416페이지 |
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American war proved Anti Jacobite prejudices Brunswick holds Cabinet calculated for aiding calumny and slander centralize all power character with calumny Colonies commenced Conceive yourselves covered the royal designs soon desire to centralize Duchess of Devonshire easily stimu England Grattan Henry Grattan holds the Throne indignation was raised King George resented King was unable King's resolution lative liberating the Sovereign licentious press covered Lord Bute succumbed Lord Chatham Lord Grantley Lord North Lord Shelburne Lord Thurlow Lords Rockingham masterdom Meantime the disputes Minister Lord Bute Monarch must share mortification of losing Oliver Goldsmith Parliamentary supremacy Parliamentary talents power with Parliament prejudices were easily procure Ministers project of liberating proposed no change pudent demagogues racter resented the resignation resolved to select Revolution families Richard Fitzpatrick Robert Walpole royal character secure a Chancellor share his power Shelburne party Sovereign from subjection speech spirit or ambition supporting his designs supposed that Parliament Whig party
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41 페이지 - I wish for nothing but to breathe, in this our island, in common with my fellow-subjects, the air of liberty. I have no ambition, unless it be the ambition to break your chain, and contemplate your glory. I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags ; he may be naked, he shall not be in...
41 페이지 - I never will be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking to his rags : he may be naked ; he shall not be in iron ; and I do see the time is at hand, the spirit is gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men should apostatize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with...
53 페이지 - Such were all the ancient commonwealths, such were our Gothic ancestors, such in our days were the Poles, and such will be all masters of slaves who are not slaves themselves. In such a people, the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invincible.
41 페이지 - ... and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall Outlast the organ which conveyed it; and the breath of liberty, like the word of the holy man, will not die with the prophet, but survive him. " I shall move you, that the king's most excellent majesty, and the lords and commons of Ireland, are the only power competent to make laws to bind Ireland.
41 페이지 - Moderation is but a relative term; for nations, like men, are only safe in proportion to the spirit they put forth, and the proud contemplation with which they survey themselves. Conceive yourselves a plantation, ridden by an oppressive government, and everything you have done is but a fortunate...
73 페이지 - ... unequalled abilities, so extraordinary the talents and ingenuity, and such the fortunate frame of the honourable gentleman's mind, his vast capacity and happy conception, that in his hands, what must have proved a vast heap of ponderous matter, composed of heterogeneous ingredients, discordant in their nature and opposite in principle, was so skilfully arranged as to become quite simple as to each respective part, dependant on each other ; and the whole at the same time so judiciously combined,...
73 페이지 - It must remain," said Mr. Dunning in a burst of admiration, " as a monument to be handed down to posterity of his uncommon zeal, unrivalled industry, astonishing abilities, and invincible perseverance. He had undertaken a task big with labour and difficulty ; a task that embraced a variety of the most important objects, extensive and complicated; yet such were the eminent and unequalled abilities, so extraordinary the talents and ingenuity, and...
49 페이지 - That the crown of Ireland is an imperial crown inseparably annexed to the crown of Great Britain, on which connection the interests and happiness of both nations essentially depend : but that the kingdom of Ireland is a distinct kingdom, with a parliament of her own — the sole legislature thereof.
17 페이지 - Townsbend's during the formation of the Ministry, and can remember when the jealousy between the Rockingham and Shelburne parties was first betrayed by Fox's awkward manner, when he let out that the King had been seen by no one but Lord Shelburne."— ED.] but I must be governed by my own feelings, and must speak the truth.
61 페이지 - The good taste it evinces is on a par with its discrimination. ' To the exertions of Wilkes and Tooke, aided by the license of the London rabble, is to be traced the birth of that spirit of false democracy, which under various names duped thousands ; and disturbed English society for the succeeding sixty years. One picture of the tribunes of that licentious party answers for their character and purposes at all periods of their history.- What knaves! what slanderers of England and its institutions!...