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Page 63 - Hard it is," said Sir Thomas Cusack, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, under Edward VI., " that men should know their duties to God and the King, when they shall not hear teaching or preaching throughout the year.
Page 188 - A petition of one Edward Sprag and others in behalf of themselves and other protestant porters, in and about the city of Dublin, complaining, that one Darby Ryan, a papist, employed porters of his own persuasion, having been received and read, it was ordered to be referred to the examination and consideration of the committee of grievances, and that they should report their opinion thereon to the house.
Page 271 - I wish to withdraw the higher orders of my countrymen from the narrow and corrupted sphere of Irish politics, and to direct their attention to objects of national importance...
Page 88 - ... we should have thought it an unreasonable thing to trouble them for any different point in religion, before any man could perceive by their conversation that they made truely conscience of any religion...
Page 263 - ... time. A troop of fugitives in full race from Ballina, women and children tumbling over one another to get into the castle, or into any house in the town where they might hope for a momentary shelter, continued for a painful length of time to give notice of the approach of an army.
Page 199 - I fear the tenant hardly ever has more than one-third of the profits he makes of his farm for his share, and too often but a, fourth, or, perhaps, a fifth part, as the tenant's share is charged with the tithe, his case is no doubt hard, but it is plain from what side the hardship arises.
Page 198 - I found myself under a necessity of troubling your lordship on this occasion with a true state of that affair, and of desiring your lordship to discourse with the ministry about it. The gentlemen of this country have ever since I came hither been talking to others, and persuading their tenants, who complained of the excessiveness of their rents, that it was not the paying too much rent, but too much tithe that impoverished them : and the notion soon took among the Scotch...
Page 134 - I do not believe, neither do I hear, that any officer escaped with his life, save only one Lieutenant, who, I hear, going to the Enemy said, That he was the only man that escaped of all the Garrison. The Enemy upon this were filled with much terror. And truly I believe this bitterness will save much effusion of blood, through the goodness of God.
Page 198 - ... if a landlord takes too great a portion of the profits of a farm for his share by way of rent (as the tithe will light on the tenant's share) the tenant will be impoverished : but then it is not the tithe but the increased rent that undoes the farmer. And indeed in this country, where I fear the tenant hardly ever has more than...
Page 267 - You talk, said his lordship, of national pride and independence, but where is the solidity of this boast ? You have not the British constitution — nor can you have it consistently with your present species of connection with Great Britain : that constitution does not recognize two separate and independent legislatures under one crown — the greater country must lead — the lesser naturally follow, and must be practically subordinate in imperial concerns ; but this necessary and beneficial operation...