Ireland: A Study in Nationalism

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B.W. Huebsch, 1918 - 404 páginas

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Página 35 - And let me speak, to the yet unknowing world, How these things came about : so shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts ; Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters ; Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause : And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads : all this can I Truly deliver.
Página 367 - State nor the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall make any law so as either directly or indirectly to endow any religion or prohibit or restrict the free exercise thereof or give any preference or impose any disability on account of religious belief...
Página 228 - We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad ? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them. They are sound sleepers, I assure you.
Página 11 - Were mankind murderous or jealous upon you, my brother, my sister? I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me, All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation, (What have I to do with lamentation?) I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.
Página 137 - All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression, which were made after the last event, were manifestly the effects of national hatred and scorn towards a conquered people, whom the victors delighted to trample upon, and were not at all afraid to provoke.
Página 358 - ... the power of conduct, the power of intellect and knowledge, the power of beauty, and the power of social life and manners...
Página 34 - It is none of my business, and it is none of your business how long they take in determining it. It is none of my business and it is none of your business how they go about the business.
Página 367 - ... the right of any child to attend a school receiving public money without attending the religious instruction at the school...
Página 138 - Whilst that temper prevailed, (and it prevailed in all its foree to a time within our memory,) every measure was pleasing and popular just in proportion as it tended to harass and ruin a set of people who were looked upon as enemies to God and man, and, indeed, as a race of bigoted savages who were a disgrace to human nature itself.
Página 71 - Unheardof confiscations were made in the northern parts, upon grounds 'of plots and conspiracies, never proved upon their supposed authors. The war of chicane succeeded to the war of arms and of hostile statutes ; and a regular series of operations...

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