It was absurd to claim independence for a community which could not cease to be dependent without ceasing to exist.
Molyneux soon found that he had ventured on a perilous undertaking.

A member of the English House of Commons complained in his place that a book which attacked the most precious privileges of the supreme legislature was in circulation.

The volume was produced; some passages were read; and a Committee was appointed to consider the whole subject.
The Committee soon reported that the obnoxious pamphlet was only one of several symptoms which indicated a spirit such as ought to be suppressed.

The Crown of Ireland had been most improperly described in public instruments as an imperial Crown.

The Irish Lords and Commons had presumed, not only to reenact an English Act passed expressly for the purpose of binding them, but to reenact it with alterations.