Ireland Under Lord De GreyS.J. Machen, 1844 - 55 pages |
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Page 18 - It is the business of the politician, who is the philosopher in action, to find out proper means towards those ends. and to employ them with effect. Therefore every honourable connexion will avow it is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Page 10 - I did, that a gratuitous, an unprovoked, and an unnecessary insult had been offered to the religious feeling of the people of Ireland. If I cannot gain power or retain it except by encouraging and favouring such feelings, I say at once, that the day on which I relinquish power, rather than defer to such feelings, will be ten times a prouder one than the day on which I obtained it. If I do accept office, it shall be by no intrigue, it shall be by no unworthy concession of constitutional principle...
Page 49 - Your opinion is, that, coupled with emancipation, that would be accepted by the Catholic clergy?' — ' My opinion is, that, coupled with or following emancipation, it would be acceptable, but not preceding it ; and my humble opinion is, that it would be a most desirable thing to have that species of settlement take place after emancipation. The consequence would be, that the Catholic clergy would become in the nature of officers belonging to the crown, forwarding the views of government in every...
Page 18 - ... pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state. As this power is attached to certain situations, it is their duty to contend for these situations. Without a proscription of others, they are bound to give to their own party the preference in all things ; and by no means, for private considerations, to accept any offers of power in which the whole body...
Page 10 - I am told that I must necessarily be the instrument of effecting objects in Ireland which I myself disapprove. I am asked whether I dare affront my associates and partisans. The honourable member for Meath [Mr.
Page 10 - Meath has alluded to the conduct of a public functionary in Ireland, who, he said, had offered an insult to the religious feelings of his fellow-countrymen by some public act of an offensive nature. I am not afraid of expressing my opinion with respect to acts like this ; and I say at once that there is no man in this House — no Roman Catholic Member in this House— who heard with deeper pain or deeper regret than I did, that a gratuitous, an unprovoked, and an unnecessary insult had been offered...
Page 3 - October club, and who, with all his faults of understanding and temper, had a sincere kindness for men of genius, re-assured the anxious poet by quoting very gracefully and happily the lines of Virgil, " Non obtusa adeo gestamus pectora Pceni, Nee tarn aversus equos Tyria Sol jungit ab urbe.
Page 49 - Kerry was a cousin-german of mine — a man of very clear and distinct intellect. He was anxious for that arrangement, and, I am sure, anxious for it from the purest motives.' — ' Your opinion is, that, coupled with emancipation, that would be accepted by the Catholic clergy?
Page 11 - Commons, but 1 declare that the engagement into which I have entered to administer impartial justice in that country, shall, as far as depends upon me, be strictly fulfilled.