History of the Civil War in Ireland, Containing an Impartial Account of the Proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the Year 1782 Until the Suppression of the Intended Revolution: To which is Prefixed a Geographical and Historical Account of Ireland, 2. kötetS. Butler & Pechin & Frailey by J. W. Butler, 1805 |
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27. oldal
... forces under his command , to move for- ward to attack the United Irish posted on Mount- Pleasant . These seemed willing enough ... force combined , amounting to thirty - seven thousand men , than to risk a partial engagement , which THE ...
... forces under his command , to move for- ward to attack the United Irish posted on Mount- Pleasant . These seemed willing enough ... force combined , amounting to thirty - seven thousand men , than to risk a partial engagement , which THE ...
28. oldal
... force , posted on Lacken- Hill , hastily to abandon their situation , proceeded to Bloomfield , where they encamped on the even- ing of the 20th , while Brigadier - General Moore reached his appointed station at Fooks's Mill on the same ...
... force , posted on Lacken- Hill , hastily to abandon their situation , proceeded to Bloomfield , where they encamped on the even- ing of the 20th , while Brigadier - General Moore reached his appointed station at Fooks's Mill on the same ...
29. oldal
... force on their station of Vinegar - Hill , and at a consultation of their chiefs . it was proposed to make a general assault on the post of Solsborough during the night , but to this the people could not be prevailed upon to agree ; who ...
... force on their station of Vinegar - Hill , and at a consultation of their chiefs . it was proposed to make a general assault on the post of Solsborough during the night , but to this the people could not be prevailed upon to agree ; who ...
32. oldal
... forces ; and apprising him , as the inhabitants of Wexford ( except the gunsmen , who attended for some time on Vinegar - Hill ) had never quitted their homes , or assisted at any battle , they were looked upon in a very invidious point ...
... forces ; and apprising him , as the inhabitants of Wexford ( except the gunsmen , who attended for some time on Vinegar - Hill ) had never quitted their homes , or assisted at any battle , they were looked upon in a very invidious point ...
34. oldal
... Wexford corps , but on no condition would they be permitted to quit the camp , until the whole remaining force should have marched off , as it was apprehended that if they were seen going , they might be followed by others 10 HISTORY OF ...
... Wexford corps , but on no condition would they be permitted to quit the camp , until the whole remaining force should have marched off , as it was apprehended that if they were seen going , they might be followed by others 10 HISTORY OF ...
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cxxi. oldal - You do me honor over-much : you have given to the subaltern all the credit of a superior. There are men engaged in this conspiracy, who are not only superior to me, but even to your own conceptions of yourself, my lord ; men, before the...
cxiv. oldal - I only to suffer death, after being adjudged guilty by your tribunal, I should bow in silence, and meet the fate that awaits me without a murmur. But the sentence of the law which delivers my body to the executioner will, through the ministry of that law, labor, in its own vindication, to consign my character to obloquy...
cxvii. oldal - You, my lord, are a judge ; I am the supposed culprit: I am a man, you are a man also; by a revolution of power we might change places, though we never could change characters. If I stand at the bar of this court and dare not vindicate my character, what a farce is your justice?
xviii. oldal - I do renounce, reject, and abjure the opinion, that princes excommunicated by the Pope and council, or by any authority...
cxix. oldal - ... an emissary of France! An emissary of France! And for what end? It is alleged that I wished to sell the independence of my country! And for what end?
cxiv. oldal - I do not imagine that, seated where you are, your minds can be so free from impurity as to receive the least impression from what I am going to utter.
cxxii. oldal - The proclamation of the provisional government speaks for our views; no inference can be tortured from it to countenance barbarity or debasement at home, or subjection, humiliation, or treachery from abroad.
cxv. oldal - When my spirit shall be wafted to a more friendly port ; when my shade shall have joined the bands of those martyred heroes who have shed their blood on the scaffold and in the field, in defence of their country and of virtue, this is my hope...
cxxi. oldal - I am accountable for all the blood that has and will be shed in this struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor — shall you tell me this, and must I be so very a slave as not to repel it? I do not fear to approach the Omnipotent Judge to answer for the conduct of my whole life; and am I to be appalled and falsified by a mere remnant of mortality here?
xxi. oldal - I do hereby disclaim, disavow, and solemnly abjure any intention to subvert the present church establishment, for the purpose of substituting a Catholic establishment in its stead; and...