Letters, Speeches and Tracts on Irish AffairsMacmillan, 1881 - 439 páginas |
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advantage affairs amongst authority BEACONSFIELD Bill body Bristol Britain Burke cause Church Church of England civil clergy conduct considered constitution Crown dear sir disposition dissenters duty EDMUND BURKE effect enemies England English establishment evil exclusion faction favour friends gentlemen give Government honour House of Commons interest Ireland Irish Jacobinism justice king kingdom land least letter liberty Lord Lord Fitzwilliam Lord North Lord-Lieutenant manner matter MATTHEW ARNOLD means measure ment mind ministers nation nature never oath object obliged opinion oppression Papists Parliament Parliament of England Parliament of Ireland party passion penal penal laws persecution persons political Popery Popish principles privileges proper Protestant Protestant ascendency reason regard religion religious repeal Revolution Roman Catholics sort spirit statutes suffer suppose sure temper things thought tion toleration trade true whilst whole wholly wish zeal
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Página 137 - The next fault is, that the inflicting of that punishment is not on the opinion of an equal and public judge ; but is referred to the arbitrary discretion of a private, nay interested, and irritated, individual. ' He, who formally is, and substantially ought to be, the judge, is in reality no more than ministerial, a mere executive instrument of a private man, who is at once judge and party. Every idea of judicial order is subverted by this procedure. If the insolvency be no crime, why is it punished...
Página 145 - But what will you feel, when you know from history how this statute passed, and what were the motives, and what the mode of making it? A party in this nation, enemies to the system of the revolution, were in opposition to the government of king William. They knew that our glorious deliverer was an enemy to all persecution. They knew that he came to free us from slavery and popery, out of a country, where a third of the people are contented Catholics under a Protestant government. He came with a part...
Página 147 - The whole body of the Catholics, condemned to beggary and to ignorance in their native land, have been obliged to learn the principles of letters, at the hazard of all their other principles, from the charity of your enemies. They have been taxed to their ruin at the pleasure of necessitous and profligate relations, and according to the measure of their necessity and profligacy.
Página 150 - I vow to God I would sooner bring myself to put a man to immediate death for opinions I disliked, and so to get rid of the man and his opinions at once, than to fret him with a feverish being, tainted with the jail distemper of a contagious servitude, to keep him above ground, an animated mass of putrefaction ; corrupted himself, and corrupting all about him.
Página 124 - I canvassed you through your affairs, and not your persons. I was not only your representative as a body ; I was the agent, the solicitor of individuals. I ran about wherever your affairs could call me ; and in acting for you I often appeared rather as a ship-broker, than as a member of parliament. There was nothing too laborious, or too low for me to undertake. The meanness of the business was raised by the dignity of the object.
Página 131 - This scene of shame and disgrace has, in a manner, whilst I am speaking, ended by the perpetual establishment of a military power in the dominions of this crown, without consent of the British legislature,* contrary to the policy of the constitution, contrary to the declaration of right...
Página 119 - ... talker. It is not to be imagined how much of service is lost from spirits full of activity, and full of energy, who are pressing, who are rushing forward, to great and capital objects, when you oblige them to be continually looking back. Whilst they are defending one service, they defraud you of a hundred. Applaud us when we run ; console us when we fall ; cheer us when we recover ; but let us pass on — for God's sake, let us pass on.
Página 122 - ... business. Then the monopoly of mental power will be added to the power of all other kinds it possesses. On the side of the people there will be nothing but impotence : for ignorance is impotence ; narrowness of mind is impotence ; timidity is itself impotence, and makes all other qualities that go along with it impotent and useless. At present it is the plan of the court to make its servants insignificant.