Ireland and Her Agitators

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J. Browne, 1845 - 376 Seiten
 

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Seite 23 - WHO fears to speak of Ninety-eight? Who blushes at the name? When cowards mock the patriot's fate, Who hangs his head for shame? He's all a knave, or half a slave, Who slights his country thus; But a true man, like you, man, Will fill your glass with us. We drink the memory of the brave, The faithful and the...
Seite 368 - We know our duty to our sovereign, and are loyal. We know our duty to ourselves, and are resolved to be- free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights; and in so just a pursuit, we should doubt the being of a Providence if we doubted of success.
Seite 195 - ... a select committee to inquire and report on the means by which the dissolution of the parliament of Ireland was effected — on the effects of that measure upon Ireland, and upon the labourers in husbandry, and the operatives in manufactures in England — and on the probable consequences of continuing the legislative union between both countries.
Seite 343 - There is not," said his lordship, " a nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures, with the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland.
Seite 263 - Wear no show of wit or science, But the gems you've won and weighed; Thefts, like ivy on a ruin, Make the rifts they seem to shade : Are you not a thief and beggar In the rarest spoils arrayed? "ORANGE AND GREEN.
Seite 266 - Faith! then I suppose you would aim at him best of all if he was out of sight!
Seite 68 - A landlord is not a mere land merchant ; he has duties to perform as well as rents to receive, and from his neglect of the former springs his difficulty in the latter, and the general misery and distraction.
Seite 344 - ... example of any other country of her extent — within these few years advancing with a rapidity, astonishing even to herself; not complaining of deficiency in any of these respects, but enjoying and acknowledging her prosperity.
Seite 94 - What can I fall back upon ? I am miserable, wretched, my situation is dreadful ; nobody about me to advise with. If I do give my assent, I'll go to the baths abroad, and from thence to Hanover: I'll return no more to England — I'll make no Roman Catholic peers — I will not do what this Bill will enable me to do — I'll return no more — let them get a Catholic King in Clarence.
Seite 9 - In truth, my young friends, it behoves a youth entering the world to make a character for himself. Respect will only be accorded to character. A young man must show his proofs. I am not a quarrelsome person...

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