 The remedy is wholly in your own hands ; and therefore I have digressed a little, in order to refresh and continue that spirit so seasonably raised among you ; and to let you see, that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you...  The Eclectic Review - Page 42edited by - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Irish birthday-book - 1884 - 300 pages
...were not so!" — "Ireland" in "Living Lives." " By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England." — DEAN SWIFT. " Far dearer the grave or the prison Illumed by one patriot name, Than the trophies... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 pages
...seasonably raised among you, and to let you see that by the laws of GOD, of NATURE, of NATIONS, and of your COUNTRY, you ARE and OUGHT to be as FREE a people as your brethren in England.' This the Government called sedition, and offered ^300 reward for the discovery of the author of the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - 396 pages
...seasonably raised among you, and to let you see that, by the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country, you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.' The Government then raised its arm to strike. A proclamation was published offering a reward of three... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1888 - 338 pages
...parliamentum, et faciunt leges ; et nostra statuta non ligant eos, quia non mittunt milites ad parliamentum," country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England." No wonder that Boulter should regard Swift with intense dislike. On one of Swift's visits to London, the... | |
 | Richard Robert Madden - 1888 - 472 pages
...SONNENSCHEIN, LOWREY, & CO. PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1888 ' By the laws of God, of Nature, of Nations, and of your Country, you are, and ought to be, as Free a people as your brethren in England" — SWIFT PEEFACE. IRELAND is now under the magnifying glass of public opinion ; her past, present,... | |
 | Great Britain. State Trials Committee - 1898 - 520 pages
...: ' The remedy,' he snys, ' is wholly in your own hands. ... By the laws of God, of nations, and of your country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England. This tract,' says Mr Walter Scott, ' pressed at once upon the real merits of the question at issue,... | |
 | George Makepeace Towle - 1888 - 336 pages
...English except the coal." He said to them, " By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your own country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England." Swift took an active part in the copper war. He gathered about him a group of Irishmen who were as... | |
 | Robert Hassencamp - 1888 - 372 pages
...raised amongst you, and to let you see that by the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your own country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England." In the seventh letter, which is addressed to both Houses of Parliament, he waxes still bolder. " For... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...1053 Emery A. Starrs : Political Oratory. Ch. 9. By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England. 1654 Swift : Tracts on Ireland. The Drapier's Fourth Letter. The cry of the soul is for freedom. It... | |
 | James Hay - 1891 - 392 pages
...Drapier, " the remedy is in your own hands By the laws of God and nature, of nations, and of your own country, you are, and ought to be, as free a people as your brethren in England." He goes on to say : "All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery,"... | |
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