Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland: Written During the Administration of Earl CamdenAuthor, 1799 - 240 стор. |
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... candid readers have made the fame comparison which I have been led to make on this occafion , they will experience pretty nearly the fame fenfations . Who Who does not recollect the remarkable infur- rection which took ( 2 )
... candid readers have made the fame comparison which I have been led to make on this occafion , they will experience pretty nearly the fame fenfations . Who Who does not recollect the remarkable infur- rection which took ( 2 )
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... infur- rection which took place in London in the year 1780 , which , for four fucceffive days , cramped the hand of Magiftracy , and fpread uncon- trouled devaftation through that great metropo- lis ? If we compare all the circumstances ...
... infur- rection which took place in London in the year 1780 , which , for four fucceffive days , cramped the hand of Magiftracy , and fpread uncon- trouled devaftation through that great metropo- lis ? If we compare all the circumstances ...
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... man- ner at least equally dangerous - might it not , I fay , have been feared that an infurrection would have taken place , as tremendous as that of Lon- don don , and that the confequent devastation would have been ( 4 )
... man- ner at least equally dangerous - might it not , I fay , have been feared that an infurrection would have taken place , as tremendous as that of Lon- don don , and that the confequent devastation would have been ( 4 )
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... infurrection ? And , all things confidered , is it not , as I have already obferved , a matter both of furprize and fatisfaction , that the riot of Tuesday terminated with fo little mischief , and that , on that occafion , the impaf ...
... infurrection ? And , all things confidered , is it not , as I have already obferved , a matter both of furprize and fatisfaction , that the riot of Tuesday terminated with fo little mischief , and that , on that occafion , the impaf ...
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... infur- rection . But it does not appear that Mr. Grattan was tormented by any fimilar apprehenfions ; for , at the moment he is ftimulating the multi- tude to rid themselves of their oppreffors , he ex- C prefsly prefsly declares ...
... infur- rection . But it does not appear that Mr. Grattan was tormented by any fimilar apprehenfions ; for , at the moment he is ftimulating the multi- tude to rid themselves of their oppreffors , he ex- C prefsly prefsly declares ...
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Сторінка 146 - Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force ; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
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Сторінка 148 - The greatest happiness of the greatest numbers in this island, the inherent and indefeasible claims of every free nation to rest in this nation — the will and the power to be happy to pursue the common weal as an individual pursues his private welfare, and to stand in insulated independence, an imperatorial...
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