 | William Joseph Battersby - 1833 - 388 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong; but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty; and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." — ibid. A similar declaration from Earl Grey, we shall give in the third part. But it may be said,... | |
 | Esq. John Levy - 1843 - 236 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere matter of prudence." He did not, however, when he said that, forget that the Union might pass in spite... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell, Henry Shaw - 1844 - 738 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." Take any one of the numerous speeches given in evidence, or any one of the uiauy [publications read, and they... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong, but resistance to it will in the abstract be a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." The argument of Mr. Plunket to the same effect is so strongly put, and is couched in such eloquent... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1844 - 1016 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed so long as " England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty, "and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of " prudence." I will be bound by it, says he, as a law, and so say I ; but it will be void in conscience and constitutional... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1846 - 632 páginas
...— it will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be, in the abstract, a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. Sir Lawrence Parsons followed in the same strain, and pressed the Government severely. He boldly asserted... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1846 - 768 páginas
...— it will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be, in the abstract, a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. Sir Lawrence Parsons followed in the same strain, and pressed the Government severely. He boldly asserted... | |
 | sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1859 - 408 páginas
...— it will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be, in the abstract, a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." " I know," said Goold, " the Ministers must succeed : but I will not go away with an aching heart,... | |
 | Joseph Fisher - 1863 - 250 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance will in the abstract be a duty ; and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence.'' Mr. Plunket warned the Government not to lay their hands on the constitution. " I tell you (said he,)... | |
 | 1869 - 608 páginas
...conscience. It will be obeyed so long as England is strong ; but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty ; and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence." Mr. Grattan, who was afterwards deemed worthy of a resting-place in Westminster Abbey, spoke these... | |
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You may make it binding as a law, but you cannot make it obligatory on conscience. It will be obeyed as long as England is strong, but resistance to it will be in the abstract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance will be a mere question of prudence. 
