Essays Political, Social, and Religious, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1874 - 538 pages |
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Page 354 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.
Page 271 - I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself and knows itself divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine are mine, All light of art or nature; — to my song, Victory and praise in their own right belong.
Page 300 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress ; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 80 - Plate ; but a people for ages civilised and cultivated ; cultivated by all the arts of polished life, whilst we were yet in the woods. There, have been (and still the skeletons remain) princes once of great dignity, authority, and opulence. There, are to be found the chiefs of tribes and nations.
Page 177 - That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an Established Church which was not their Church, and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world.
Page 177 - Well, then, what would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position ? They would say at once, the remedy is revolution.
Page 177 - England logically is in the odious position of being the cause of all the misery of Ireland. What then is the duty of an English Minister ? To effect by his policy all those changes which a revolution would do by force. That is the Irish question in its integrity.* These were statesmanlike words, but they were never followed by statesmanlike deeds.
Page 80 - There, have been (and still the skeletons remain) princes once of great dignity, authority, and opulence. There, are to be found the chiefs of tribes and nations. There is to be found an...
Page 200 - Secondly, to provide in any case that prisoners suffering as Fenians, or for a political offence, shall not during the execution of their sentence be confined in common with prisoners suffering for offences against the ordinary criminal laws of their country. Thirdly, your petitioners, justly alarmed by their recollection of the atrocities perpetrated by the English troops in Ireland in 1798, as also by their recollection of the conduct of the English army and its officers in India and Jamaica ;...
Page 270 - Paul spoke of there being neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumeision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free ; but Christ being all an<J in all.