 | 1826 - 860 pages
...What would be the effect of this <i tor mind of the peasantry, followed up by tfce quotation — " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free, himself must strike the blow ?" Mr. Sheill had recently declared that "the Brituh législature requires the degradation of a »bole... | |
 | Walter Scott - Europe - 1827 - 702 pages
...hear). What would be the effect of this on the mind of the peasantry, followed up by the quotation — " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, Who would be free, himself must strike the blow ?" Mr Sheill had recently declared, that " the British legislature requires the degradation of a whole... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1845 - 738 pages
...have been ringing with cries of justice to Ireland : and the beautiful and often quoted lines — " Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not Who would be free himself must strike the blow ?" would not have been heard from the lips of one man only ; but now it appeared that freedom for Ireland... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 652 pages
...the object of their visit to John Bull's metropolis, it is some consolation to reflect that — poor things — they are, at all events, in ignorance of...not, Who would be free, himself must strike the blow 1' create no small consternation as well as confusion among the green-coated pointsmen, porters, and... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 654 pages
...the object of their visit to John Bull's metropolis, it is some consolation to reflect that — poor things — they are, at all events, in ignorance of...disembarking the cattle, in spite of every precaution, an enfuriatnd Welsh or a wild Irish bullock, will occasionally escape from this platform, and by roaring,... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - English essays - 1857 - 416 pages
...the fate that awaits them. In disembarking the cattle, in spite of every precaution, an infuriated wild Irish bullock, will occasionally escape from...not, Who would be free, himself must strike the blow ! " creates no small consternation as well as confusion among the green-coated pointsmen, porters,... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - 1857 - 412 pages
...the object of their visit to John Bull's Metropolis, it is some consolation to reflect that — poor things — they are, at all events, in ignorance of...disembarking the cattle, in spite of every precaution, an infuriated wild Irish bullock, will occasionally escape from this platform, and by roaring, jumping,... | |
 | Sir Francis Bond Head - English essays - 1857 - 422 pages
...the object of their visit to John Bull's Metropolis, it is some consolation to reflect that — poor things — they are, at all events, in ignorance of...disembarking the cattle, in spite of every precaution, an infuriated wild Irish bullock, will occasionally escape from this platform, and by roaring, jumping,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1858 - 784 pages
...will not now do : I call on you to act at once: make your choice cither to be freemen or slaves. ' Hereditary bondsmen, know ye not, Who would be free, himself must strike the blow ! ' " And at an immense meeting held at Tara, so famous in Aug. is. Irish song, on 15th August 1843,... | |
 | James Macaulay - Ireland - 1873 - 494 pages
...people are left ignorant and untrained, the ready prey of priestly deluders and political agitators. " Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not Who would be free, himself must strike the blow ? " This was one of O'Connell's favourite appeals ; but he did not tell his poor dupes that the chains... | |
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... interesting to see such a quantity of polished horns, bright eyes, streams of white breath, and healthy black wet noses projecting above the upper rail of their respective waggons, and fatal as is the object of their visit to John Bull's metropolis,... 
