 | 1823 - 602 pages
..."pronounced on one of tne most interesting subjects that affect the dignity or the happiness of man? ' I am now to address a free people : ages have passed...by that appellation. '"••• <>-... •> • I ' i ••••'. " ' I have spoken on the subject of your liberty so often, that I have nothing to... | |
 | 1823 - 616 pages
...before him, the Speech delivered by Mr Grattan on the 16th, which begins with these words, ' I am noy> * to address a free people ; ages have passed away,...you could be distinguished by that * appellation. ' And yet, seeing all this, he does not hesitate to put upon record, for the misinformation of posterity,... | |
 | 1836 - 740 pages
...— " I am now to address a free people. Ages have pasoed away, — sml this ь the first moment that you could be distinguished by that appellation. "...have nothing to add ; — and have only to admire the heaven-directed steps, by which yon have proceeded, until the whole faculty of the nation is braced... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1839 - 488 pages
...recommended. Mr. Grattan then rose, bearing evident marks of much bodily illness, and great mental anxiety. " Deep on his front engraven, Deliberation sat, and...have passed away, and this is the first moment in i which you could be distinguished by that appellation. " I have spoken on the subject of your liberty... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...parliament. He commenced in a strain of trinmph — pronouncing Ireland now to be a free people : — " I am now to address a free people ! — Ages have...the first moment in which you could be distinguished Ly that appellation. I have spoken on the subject of your liberty so often, that I have nothing to... | |
 | 1852 - 486 pages
...he rose in the Irish House of Commons, on the memorable 16th of April, 3782. " I am now," said he, " to address a free people : ages have passed away,...could be distinguished by that appellation." — "I found Ireland 011 her knees ; I watched over her with an eternal solicitude ; I have traced her progress... | |
 | 1852 - 892 pages
...on the memorable 16th of April, 1782. " I am now," said he, " to address a free people : ages hare passed away, and this is the first moment in which...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 pages
...your glory. I beg to observe, that the deliverance of Ireland has proceeded from her own right hand I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed away, and this is the first ТЫ object ' . , - , iji -,• • •ireajru moment m which you could be distm"""'' guished by that... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 pages
...penaaiioo, as of assured triumph. He speaks of it in his first sentence as if already carried. SPEECH,1 &o. I am now to address a free people. Ages have passed away, and this is the first ' . . /' ,,,,.. i*- moment in which you could be distinguished by that appellation. I have spoken on... | |
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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. 
