 | 1899 - 434 páginas
...sacred instant touched liberty's goal," and Mr. Grattan, rising slowly in her House of Commons, said: "I am now to address a free people; ages have passed...you could be distinguished by that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees; I watched over her with an eternal solicitude. I have traced her progress... | |
 | 1901 - 208 páginas
...instant touched liberty's goal, — " and Mr. Grattan, rising slowly in her House of Commons, said: "I am now to address a free people; ages have passed...you could be distinguished by that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees; I watched over her with an eternal solicitude. I have traced her progress... | |
 | 1902 - 494 páginas
...instant touched liberty's goal, — " and Mr. Grattan, rising slowly in her House of Commons, said: "I am now to address a free people ; ages have passed...and this is the first moment in which you could be distingiaished by that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees; I watched over her with an eternal... | |
 | Robert Henry Murray - 1911 - 490 páginas
...Parliament achieved the independence that Molyneux so ardently desired. " I am now," remarked Grattan, " to address a free people ; ages have passed away,...which you could be distinguished by that appellation. Spirit of Swift ! Spirit of Molyneux ! your genius has prevailed. Ireland is now a nation ! In that... | |
 | 1912 - 296 páginas
...discipline of the troops, filled all who saw them with wonder. He opened his speech by saying : — "I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed...you could be distinguished by that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees. I watched over her with an eternal solicitude. I have traced her progress... | |
 | George Sigerson - 1919 - 252 páginas
...in Ireland — inside the House, all, in intent silence, listened to Grattan's impassioned words : " I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed...you could be distinguished by that appellation. " I found Ireland on her knees : I watched over her with paternal solicitude, I have traced her progress... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - 1919 - 172 páginas
...College Green may be privileged to say, with Grattan, as he rose slowly in 1782 in her House of Commons : I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed...away, and this is the first moment in which you could he distinguished hy that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees. I watched over her with that eternal... | |
 | Thomas Clarke Luby - 1880 - 560 páginas
...Bill, and the unconstitutional powers of the Privy Council. Thus his "restless eloquence " began: — " I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed...have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what Heaven - directed steps you have proceeded until the whole faculty of the nation is braced up to the... | |
 | Rufus Choate - 2002 - 460 páginas
...sacred instant touched liberty's goal,"— and Mr. Grattan, rising slowly in her house of commons, said: "I am now to address a free people; ages have passed...you could be distinguished by that appellation. I found Ireland on her knees; I watched over her with an eternal solicitude. I have traced her progress... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 898 páginas
...patriotic party won all they demanded, and the following psean of freedom was uttered by Grattan — I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed away, and this is the first moment that you could be distinguished by that appellation. I have spoken on the subject of your liberty so... | |
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I am now to address a free people : ages have passed away, and this is the first moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation. 
