Ireland in '98: Sketches of the Principal Men of the Time, Based Upon the Published Volumes and Some Unpublished Mss. of the Late Dr. Richard Robert Madden. With Engraved Portraits and Contemporary Illustrations |
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Pàgina 22 - I have always understood it to be the duty of a judge, when a prisoner has been convicted, to pronounce the sentence of the law. I have also understood that judges sometimes think it their duty to hear with patience and to speak with humanity...
Pàgina 25 - Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonour ; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have, engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence...
Pàgina 26 - My Lords, you are impatient for the sacrifice - the blood which you seek is not congealed by the artificial terrors which surround your victim; it circulates warmly and unruffled, through the channels which God created for noble purposes, but which you are bent to destroy, for purposes so grievous, that they cry to heaven.
Pàgina 53 - It is nothing less than a confiscation of all property, and an immediate banishment. It would be extremely painful, and surely unnecessary to detail the horrors that attend the execution of so rude and tremendous a proscription.
Pàgina 27 - I am going to my cold and silent grave ; my lamp of life is nearly extinguished ; my race is run ; the grave opens to receive me, and I sink into its bosom ! I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world...
Pàgina 38 - She sings the wild songs of her dear native plains, Every note which he loved awaking ; — Ah ! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the Minstrel is breaking.
Pàgina 18 - On the contrary, it is evident, from the introductory paragraph of the address of the provisional government, that every hazard attending an independent effort was deemed preferable to the more fatal risk of introducing a French army into the country.
Pàgina 55 - The glorious, pious and immortal memory of the great and good King William — not forgetting Oliver Cromwell, who assisted in redeeming us from Popery, slavery, arbitrary power, brass money and wooden shoes.
Pàgina 39 - Every note which he loved awaking — Ah ! little they think, who delight in her strains, How the heart of the minstrel is breaking ! He had lived for his love, for his country he died — They were all that to life had entwined him ; Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried, Nor long will his love stay behind him ! Oh ! make her a grave where the sunbeams rest, When they promise a glorious morrow ; They'll shine o'er her sleep, like a smile from the west. From her own loved island of sorrow...
Pàgina 24 - I have been charged with that importance, in the efforts to emancipate my country, as to be considered the keystone of the combination of Irishmen, or, as your lordship expressed it, "the life and blood of the conspiracy.
Informació bibliogràfica
| Títol | Ireland in '98: Sketches of the Principal Men of the Time, Based Upon the Published Volumes and Some Unpublished Mss. of the Late Dr. Richard Robert Madden. With Engraved Portraits and Contemporary Illustrations |
| Autor | Richard Robert Madden |
| Editor | John Bowles Daly |
| Editor | Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, 1888 |
| Original de | Universitat de Harvard |
| Digitalitzat el | 13 Set. 2007 |
| Nre. de pàgines | 400 pàgines |
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