| 1782 - 682 páginas
...be a Britilh ftatnte, I rcjeét it ; I would rtjeíl Magna Charta under a Britiih ftatule. We bave not come to England for a charter, but with a charter ; and we have aflcrd her to cancel all her declarations made in oppofition to it. This is the true idea of the fituation... | |
| Henry Grattan - 1822 - 436 páginas
...GRATTAN said, If the security that the honourable gentleman desires be a British statute, I rejegt it: I would reject Magna Charta under a British statute....This is the true idea of the situation of Ireland : — no man will be content with less than a free constitution; and I trust no man will be frantic... | |
| Thomas MacNevin - 1845 - 258 páginas
...Grattan, on the other hand, refused the security of a British statute, and exclaimed that the people had not come to England for a charter but •with a charter, and asked her to cancel all declarations in opposition to it. It must be said that Ireland had no charter.... | |
| John Mitchel - 1869 - 316 páginas
...Grattan, on the other hand, refused the security of a British statute, and exclaimed that the people had not come to England for a charter but with a charter, and asked her to cancel all declarations in opposition to it. It must be said that Ireland had no charter.... | |
| 1869 - 608 páginas
...Grattan, on the other hand, refused the scvurity of a British statute, and exclaimed that the people had not come to England for a charter but with a charter, and asked lier to cancel all declarations in opposition to it. It must IK; said that Ire land had no charter.... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1874 - 546 páginas
...Britain to renounce a right implied that it at present existed. " If the security which the honorable gentleman desires be a British statute," said Grattan,...dangers, we may find food for perpetual discontent." Grattan, too, was hereafter to find food for discontent on equally imaginary grounds, but compared... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1881 - 598 páginas
...literatim.' Following so immediately on the grand movement which was to give Ireland a renewal of life, this outburst of feeling was unlucky and unpromising. What...dangers, we may find food for perpetual discontent.' The 6th of George I., said Yelverton, asserts the power of the British Legislature to bind Ireland.... | |
| Thomas MacNevin - 1882 - 266 páginas
...Grattan, on the other hand, refused the security of a British statute, and exclaimed that the people had not come to England for a charter but with a charter, and asked her to cancel all declarations in opposition to it. It must be said that Ireland had no charter.... | |
| 1782 - 774 páginas
...Gentleman defires be a Britilh ftatute, I rejrcl it ; I would reject Magna Charta under a Britifh ftatute. We have not come to England for a charter, but with a charter ; and we have a(ked her to cancel all her declarations made in oppofition to it. This is the true idea of the fituation... | |
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