The Crisis: A Collection of Essays Written in the Years 1792 and 1793, Upon Toleration, Public Credit, the Elective Franchise in Ireland, the Emancipation of the Irish Catholics, with Other Interesting and Miscellaneous Subjects ...

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Página 6 - All muft be falfe that thwart this One great End ; And all of God, that blefs Mankind or mend.
Página 64 - Prussian army, being composed chiefly of strangers of different countries, manners, and religion, are united only by the strong chain of military discipline : this, and a most rigid attention to keep up all the forms and discipline established, constitutes a vast and regular machine, which, being animated by the vigorous and powerful genius of their leader, may be justly accounted one of the most respectable armies in Europe ; but should this spring, however, languish, but for an instant only, the...
Página 64 - The Pruffian army being compofed chiefly of ftrangers of different countries, manners, and religion, are united only by the ftrong chain of military difcipline : this, and a moft rigid attention to keep up all the forms and...
Página 18 - I must change my opinion for his, because it is the truer and the better, without other arguments, that have to me the force of conviction, may as well tell me I must change my grey eyes for others like his that are black, because these are lovelier or more in esteem.
Página 90 - Catholics of this kingdom fhall enjoy fuch privileges in the exercife of their religion, as are confiftent with the laws of Ireland ; or as they did enjoy in the reign of King Charles the Second : and their Majefties, as foon as their affairs will permit them to fummon a Parliament in this kingdom, will endeavour to procure the faid Roman Catholics fuch farther fecurity in that particular, as may freferve them from any difturbance upon the account of their faid religion.
Página 91 - ... against a would-be absolutist king "and royal attempts to preserve the old [pre-capitalist] order. "W [T)he policy of the leaders of the rebellion was clear and straightforward. They opposed interference with the landlord's property rights on the part of the king and on the part of the radicals from the lower orders. In July 1641, the Long Parliament abolished the Star Chamber, the main royal weapon against enclosing landlords, as well as the general symbol of arbitrary royal power.
Página 119 - ... have it in their power to commit frauds, and frequently do fo, by *' means whereof feveral perfons (who through many years induftry in their trades and cm...

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