 | John Frederick Smith - 1861 - 650 páginas
...expressly summoned by the speaker, Grattan rose, and, assuming the question already as carried, began, "I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed away, and this is the first moment ia which you could be distinguished by that appellation. I have found Ireland on her knees ; I have... | |
 | 1862 - 492 páginas
...Throne was then moved ; before it was put from the chair, Mr. Grattan rose, — " I am now," he said, " to address a free people ; ages have passed away,...until the whole faculty of the nation is braced up in the act of her own deliverance. " I found Ireland on her knees. I watched over her with a paternal... | |
 | Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown - 1862 - 588 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 662 páginas
...expressly summoned by the speaker, Grattan rose, and, assuming the question already as carried, began, "I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed...could be distinguished by that appellation. I have found Ireland on her knees ; I have watched over her with an eternal solicitude ; I have traced her... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1868 - 476 páginas
...royal wisdom. TRIUMPH OF IRISH INDEPENDENCE. April 16, 1782. Mr. GRATTAN rose, and spoke as follows : I am now to address a free people : ages have passed...have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what Heaven-direcfted steps you have proceeded until the whole faculty of the nation is braced up to the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 388 páginas
...had been achieved, and the grandeur of the prospects that were unfolding. 'I am now,' he exclaimed, 'to address a free people. Ages have passed away,...have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what I heaven-directed steps you have proceeded until the whole faculty of the nation is braced up to the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1874 - 538 páginas
...rose ; and considering thab the battle was won, thus commenced one of hia splendid harangues : — " I am now to address a free people : ages have passed...appellation. " I have spoken on the subject of your liberty BO often, that I have nothing to add, and have only to admire by what heaven-directed steps you have... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...persuasion, as of assured triumph. He (peaks of it in his first sentence as if already carried. SPEECH,' &c. d out to things that deserve reprehension. My resolution, therefore, does nothi ri» moment in which you could be dislin"™" guished by that appellation. I have spoken on the subject... | |
 | John F. Aiken - 1877 - 176 páginas
...mutual advantage of bo til. ciary and parliament. Grattan arose in her House of Commons and 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 a maternal solicitude. I have traced her progress... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 390 páginas
...a short though glowing speech. With beaming face he uttered the following impassioned words : — " 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 ia braced up to the... | |
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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. 
