Essays on the Political Circumstances of Ireland: Written During the Administration of Earl Camden, with an Appendix, Containing Thoughts on the Will of the People. And a Postscript Now First PublishedGraisberry & Campbell, 1798 - 234 ページ |
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147 ページ - ... under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force ; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community...
35 ページ - The day of Jehovah cometh, the land is as the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness,
74 ページ - We have gone to what we conceive to be the root of the evil; we have stated what we conceive to be the remedy. — With a parliament thus reformed, every thing is easy; without it, nothing can be done...
149 ページ - order to ferve him whofe fervice is perfect freedom. The Hierophant next proceeds to ftate, that " to form " a fummary of the national will and pleafure in points " moft interefting to national happinefs, and...
148 ページ - The greatest happiness of the greatest numbers in this island, the inherent and indefeasible claims of every free nation to rest in this nation — the will and the power to be happy to pursue the common weal as an individual pursues his private welfare, and to stand in insulated independence, an imperatorial...
27 ページ - Irish people, return to power, / have no hesitation to say that they will extinguish Ireland, or Ireland must remove them. It is not your case only, but that of the nation. I find the country already committed in the struggle ; I beg to be committed along with her, and to abide the issues of her fortunes.
157 ページ - ... and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are...
157 ページ - ... and opinion ; and remember, efpecially, that for the efficient management of your common, interefts, in a country fo extenfive as our's, a government of as much vigour as is confiftent with the perfect fecurity of liberty is indifpenfable.
6 ページ - Should such a combination, at once inflamed as it must be now, by the favour of the British court, and by the reprobation of the Irish people, return to power, I have...
120 ページ - Republic; murder and afTaffination are organized in many places, and the adminiftration of police, without activity and without force, from want of provifionary means, is unable to check thefe diforders.