Union Pamphlets, Volumen8

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1799
 

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Página 15 - Britain, on which connexion 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. That there is no body of men competent to make laws to bind this nation except the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland...
Página 2 - England are entitled, in the first place, to the regular administration and free course of justice in the courts of law; next, to the right of petitioning the king and parliament for redress of grievances; and, lastly, to the right of having and using arms for self-preservation and defence.
Página 51 - ... without example, were another dreadful scourge on the peasantry; and as married men were exempted from it, occasioned in some degree that mischievous population, which brought beings into the world, in order for little else than to be starved. The...
Página 51 - The corvees, or police of the roads, were annually the ruin of many hundreds of farmers ; more than 300 were reduced to beggary in filling up one vale in...
Página 50 - ... would naturally look up, could find little difficulty in throwing' much of the weight of their taxes on others, without a similar support. Instances, and even gross ones...
Página 9 - Whether the bulk of our Irish natives are not kept from thriving, by that cynical content in dirt and beggary, which they possess to a degree beyond any other people in Christendom ? 20.
Página 59 - ... on the most petty objects, but by a dreadful loss of time. The judges, commonly ignorant pretenders, who hold their courts in cabarets, and are absolutely dependent on the seigneurs.
Página 40 - ... that used in the speech to which I have referred.—" Gentlemen undervalue the reduction of British duties on our manufactures. I agree with them it may not operate soon, but we are to look forward to a final settlement ; and it is impossible but that in time, with as good climate, equal natural powers, cheaper food, and fewer taxes, we must be able to sell to them.
Página 26 - Netherlands ftill flows in your veins ; and in the midft of the confufion of war we confider you as our friends and allies. It is under this name that we enter your country. We feek not to terrify, but to infpire you with confidence.
Página 48 - I mean the lowe'r and middle ranks, could fuffer very little from fuch engines, and as few of them are objefts of jealoufy, had there been nothing elfe to complain of, it is not probable they would ever have been brought to take arms. The abufes attending the levy of taxes were heavy and univerfal. The kingdom was...

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