Patriotic Sketches of Ireland, Written in Connaught, Volúmenes1-2G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1809 - 222 páginas |
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Página 144 - Or of sweet sound, or fair proportion'd form, The grace of motion, or the bloom of light, Thrills through Imagination's tender frame, From nerve to nerve; all naked and alive They catch the spreading rays; till now the soul At length discloses every tuneful spring, To that harmonious movement from without Responsive.
Página 219 - They have a right to the fruits of their industry ; and to the means of making their industry fruitful. They have a right to the acquisitions of their parents ; to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in life, and to consolation in death.
Página 219 - If civil society be made for the advantage of man, all the advantages for which it is made become his right. It is an institution of beneficence ; and law itself is only beneficence acting by a rule.
Página 219 - Men have a right to live by that rule; they have a right to justice, as between their fellows, whether their fellows are in politic function or in ordinary occupation. They have a right to the fruits of their industry, and to the means of making their industry fruitful.
Página 94 - Nations are governed by the same methods, and on the same principles, by which an individual without authority is often able to govern those who are his equals or his superiors; by a knowledge of their temper, and by a judicious management of it...
Página 84 - All these statutes speak of English rebels and Irish enemies, as if the Irish had never been in the condition of subjects, but always out of the protection of the...
Página 26 - O'Connor, and plucked the weed or blew away the thistle ' that waved there its lonely head.' The sun was setting in gloomy splendour, and the lofty angles of the abbey-tower alone caught the reflection of his dying beams, from the summits of the mountains where they still lingered...
Página 83 - The claims which they made in the expecting confidence of their hearts, remained unrealized, because they were unheard :* for it was ever, as it is now, the singular destiny of Ireland to nourish within her own bosom her bitterest enemies, who with a species of political vampyrism, destroyed that source from whence their own nutriment flowed. — • For still did they, who partially ruled over one country under the influence of the other, close every avenue to mutual and conciliating intelligence;...
Página 111 - ... delight with so much delicacy and soothe so softly, that the excellence of their art seems to lie in concealing it.
Página 145 - Consenting, sounded through the warbling air Unbidden strains, even so did Nature's hand To certain species of external things, Attune the finer organs of the mind; So the glad impulse of congenial powers, Or of sweet sound, or...