THe Ulster Loyalists: A Reply to the Speeches of the Rev. Dr. Kane & Mr. G. Hill Smith, Delivered in Mutual Street Rink, on the 9th September, 1886 ...

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Seite 16 - It is no secret, that a persecution, accompanied with all the circumstances of ferocious cruelty, which have in all ages distinguished that dreadful calamity, is now raging in this country.
Seite 16 - ... of human cruelties have we read, of more than half the inhabitants of a populous country deprived at one blow of the means, as well as of the fruits of their industry, and driven, in the midst of an inclement season, to seek a shelter for themselves and their helpless families where chance may guide them!!!
Seite 16 - A lawless banditti have constituted themselves judges of this new species of delinquency ; and the sentence they have denounced is equally concise and terrible. It is nothing less than a confiscation of all property and an immediate banishment.
Seite 5 - A mind well skilled to find or forge a fault, A turn for punning, call it Attic salt ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit, Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit ; Care not for feeling — pass your proper jest, And stand a critic hated yet caressed.
Seite 70 - A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be; My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Seite 53 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided ; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Seite 51 - At present, nearly the whole taxable income of the Irish people is, in fact, absorbed by the State. The taxable income being about .£15,000,000 only, the Imperial Government, as we have seen, takes nearly ^7,000,000, and the local taxes are over ^3,000,000 more, or about ^ 1 0,000,000 in all.
Seite 5 - A mind well skilled to find, or forge a fault ; A turn for punning — call it Attic salt ; To JEFFREY go, be silent and discreet, His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet : Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a...
Seite 50 - Office, &c., the contributions of Great Britain being nearly ten times that amount. In other words, Ireland, while constituting only about a twentieth part of the United Kingdom in resources, nevertheless pays a tenth or eleventh of the taxes. Ireland ought to pay about 3,500,000?. and it pays nearly 7,000,000?.
Seite 40 - This — that, debarred from every other trade and industry, the entire nation flung itself back upon ' the land' with as fatal an impulse as when a river whose current is suddenly impeded rolls back and drowns the valley it once fertilized.

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