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... course of events in Ireland that we feel their influence even in 1910. My examination of the character of the fact we know as the Irish Revolution led me to conclude that the usual account was altogether inadequate , for it did not ...
... course of events in Ireland that we feel their influence even in 1910. My examination of the character of the fact we know as the Irish Revolution led me to conclude that the usual account was altogether inadequate , for it did not ...
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... feelings of the time . Clarke pre- served all the letters sent to him during the course of the war , and these I consulted throughout . The letters of b Douglas and Ginkell are particularly difficult to read , and PREFACE ix.
... feelings of the time . Clarke pre- served all the letters sent to him during the course of the war , and these I consulted throughout . The letters of b Douglas and Ginkell are particularly difficult to read , and PREFACE ix.
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... course , therefore , the Act of Settlement satisfied but few of the claimants , and those who met with the most signal injustice were old Roman Catholic landlords who had taken no part in the violences of 1641 , or in the subsequent ...
... course , therefore , the Act of Settlement satisfied but few of the claimants , and those who met with the most signal injustice were old Roman Catholic landlords who had taken no part in the violences of 1641 , or in the subsequent ...
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... course of events in Ireland cannot be understood or appreciated from the standpoint of politics in London or in Dublin ; that we have to go to Paris , and even to Vienna , to com- prehend the full and inward significance of the whole ...
... course of events in Ireland cannot be understood or appreciated from the standpoint of politics in London or in Dublin ; that we have to go to Paris , and even to Vienna , to com- prehend the full and inward significance of the whole ...
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... course of the history of Ireland , might whisper Paris , London , " for these two cities might perhaps be taken to represent the power of Louis XIV . and of William III . Each of these players on the international chess- << 1 Leopold ...
... course of the history of Ireland , might whisper Paris , London , " for these two cities might perhaps be taken to represent the power of Louis XIV . and of William III . Each of these players on the international chess- << 1 Leopold ...
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Page 247 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 247 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 236 - The Roman catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland, or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles II...
Page 201 - And trims his helmet's plume ; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom ; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Page 393 - The settlement of this manufacture will contribute much to people the country, and will be found much more advantageous to this kingdom, than the woollen, manufacture, which being the settled staple trade of England, from whence all foreign markets are supplied, can never be encouraged here...
Page 236 - Catholics of this kingdom shall enjoy such privileges in the exercise of their religion, as are consistent with the laws of Ireland : or as they did enjoy in the reign of king Charles the Second : and their majesties, as soon as their affairs will permit them to summon a parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the said Roman Catholics such further security in that particular, as may preserve them from any disturbance upon the account of their said religion.
Page 181 - ... hundred of them without arms, who look like the poorest humblest slaves in the world, and you may search till you are weary before you find one gun ; but yet when they have a mind to do mischief they can all be 43 Story, p. 1 6; London Gazette, 2 Oct. 1690. 44 Story, Continuation, p. 49. ready in an hour's warning...
Page 280 - God for mercy, constrained them to let them go. They beat them with staves, and dragged them all bruised to the popish churches, where their enforced presence is reputed for an abjuration.
Page 31 - Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, assembled at Westminster, do resolve that William and Mary, Prince and Princess of Orange, be, and be declared King and Queen of England.
Page 342 - I heard many very eloquent speeches, but I cannot say they struck me like the exertion of the abilities of Irishmen in the English House of Commons, owing perhaps to the reflection both on the speaker and auditor, that the Attorney-General of England, with a dash of his pen, can reverse, alter, or entirely do away the matured result of all the eloquence, and all the abilities of this whole assembly.