...make the Union binding as a Uv, but yon cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a dutv, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." I will be bound by...

...noble Lird the Member for South Paddiugton. He said — " You may make it binding as a law, but yon cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be...as England is strong ; but resistance to it will be a duty, and the ex2 C 769 Qorernment of Ireland Bill. 772 hibition of that resistance will bo a mere...

...speech of bis, which was published in the shape of a pamphlet : " You may make the Union binding as л law. but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a dutj, and the exhibition...

...struggle against usurpation, and not resistance against law. " You," he added, " may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." " I know," said Thomas Goold, " the Ministers must succeed ; but I will not go away with an aching...

...added, " may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience—it will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." " I know," said Thomas Goold, " the Ministers must succeed; but I will not go away with an aching heart,...

...added, " may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience—it will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance...exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question oi prudence." " I know," said Thomas Goold, " the Ministers must succeed; but I will not go away with...

...bound to obey it." " You may," said Saurin, afterward Attorney-General for Ireland, "make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." Plunket and Saurin themselves, as well as others, who, with them, thundered against the Union when...

...your power!! ' — Speech, 1800. ' ' Mr. Saurin to the same effect said : ' You may make the Union binding as a law; but you cannot make it obligatory...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. ' — Ibid. " . . . But it may be said, that the Irish people did silently acquiesce to the Union....

...parliament from the illiberality of England.' ' If a legislative Union,' Saurin said, ' should be so forced upon this country against the will of its inhabitants,...and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere matter of prudence.' ' When I take into account,' says Burrowes, ' the hostile feelings generated by...

...authoritative maxims : " You may make the Union binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory in conscience: it will be obeyed as long as England is...that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." Irish Separatists did not always find it prudent to speak with the precision of the future Attorney-General:...