A letter to that truly patriot-candidate for the city of Dublin, doctor Charles Lucas |
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Addrefs Affembly Affertion affured againſt Aldermen alfo alſo appointed becauſe bleffed Candidates Caufe cauſe chooſe Citizens City of Dublin Commons Confcience Confent Confequence Conftitution Corruption Country Countrymen Defcendants defire demonftrate Duty Election Electors eſtabliſhed faid Charles Lucas faid City fame FARMER Favour felves ferve feveral fhall fhould fince fingle firft firſt fome Freedom Friends ftand ftill fuch fuffer fufficient fupported fure Gentlemen GEORGE FAULKNER glorious Revolution Government Great-Britain hath higheſt himſelf honeft Honour Houfe Houſe Influence Intereft itſelf juft King Kingdom Kingdom of Ireland laft lefs LETTER Liberty Lord Lord-Mayor Magiftracy Magiftrates Meaſure ment moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nation Nature neceffary Number Occafion Oppofition Parliament Patriotifm Patriots Perfon pleaſed Poffeffions Pofterity political Power prefent preferve Privileges publiſhed Purpoſe Queſtion Reaſon Refpect reftore Repreſentatives Rights ſeveral ſhall Sheriffs Spirit thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Truft Truth uſed Virtue whofe Wiſdom yourſelves
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الصفحة 18 - The tree grew, and was strong, and the height thereof reached unto heaven, and the sight thereof to the end of all the earth: the leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all : the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
الصفحة 7 - Not the red arm of angry Jove, That flings the thunder from the sky, And gives it rage to roar, and strength to fly. Should the whole frame of nature round him break In ruin and confusion hurl'd, He, unconcern'd, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.
الصفحة 14 - The reddening orange and the swelling grain : Joyless he sees the growing oils and wines, And in the myrtle's fragrant shade repines ; Starves, in the midst of Nature's bounty curst, And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst.
الصفحة 14 - With all the gifts that heav'n and earth impart, The smiles of nature, and the charms of art, While proud oppression in her valleys reigns, And tyranny usurps her happy plains...
الصفحة 17 - As, when the winds their airy quarrel try, Justling from ev'ry quarter of the sky, This way and that the mountain oak they bend, His boughs they shatter, and his branches rend; With leaves and falling mast they spread the ground; The hollow valleys echo to the sound...
الصفحة 7 - HE man refolv'd and fteady to his truft, Inflexible to ill, and obftinately juft, May the rude rabble's infolence defpife, Their fenfelefs clamours and tumultuous cries ; The tyrant's fiercenefs he beguiles, And the ftern brow, and the harfh voice defies, And with fuperior greatnefs fmiles. "Not the rough whirlwind, that deforms Adria's black gulf, and vexes it with ftofhis, The ftubborn virtue of his foul can move ; Nor the red arm...
الصفحة 9 - At the humble petition of the lord mayor, sheriffs, commons, and citizens of the city of Dublin, be it enacted,
الصفحة 15 - Eas'd of her load fubjeftion grows more light, ' And poverty looks chearful in thy fight ; Thou mak'ft the gloomy face of nature gay> Giv'ft beauty to the fun, and pleafure to the day. Thee, goddefs, thee...
الصفحة 14 - Oh, Liberty ! thou goddefs heav'nly bright, Profufe of blifs, and pregnant with delight ! Eternal pleafures in thy prefence reign, And fmiling Plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eas'd of her load Subjection grows more light.
الصفحة 3 - Yoke . . . while even in Britain the terms Liberty and Patriotism are secretly ridiculed as chimerical- it is to Ireland alone, as to the Heart, where the Animal Spirits, the Vital Heat of Political Nature appear to make their Retreat; from hence I trust to re-expand, to...