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Note
Civil Introd.
Which is a best of? – a man who is living in a
jail at Paris, or a man who is sitting in the
House of Lords at Dublin, or a man who is
sitting in the Senate at Petersburgh or Copenhagen
The first man comes of but shorter in the first larger
branch of personal liberty and still shorter in the
narrower branch: but then he enjoys political
liberty in perfection in both branches, any inter
constitutional as well as international, in as great
perfection at least as the progress hitherto made
in national illumination will admitt of. The
Irish Peer who sits is sitting in the Irish House of Lords or
sitting lying or standing in his own house or any other house or without doors
as he pleases is better off than if he were lying
in Dublin chained to the floor of a Jail, but then
he is worse off than the Parisian prisoner in point
of constitutional liberty, and worse off in point of international liberty so long as
the King of Ireland has who never was in Ireland
has more English advisers about him than Irish
worse off than even even the Danish or the Russian produce
or domestic slave. The and the Russians Member of the Russian Loyals
have has again the advantage of the French prisoner
and is upon a par with the Irish Peer
in point of personal liberty, they have the advantage
of the Irish Peer in point of international
liberty, but they yield to the Irishman in point
of constitutional liberty they yield to are out-topped bythe Irishman
and in comparison of the French Prisoner they are diminutive indeed
which
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