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| | Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | A cloud of portentous awe seemed to hang over the City of Dublin — The apparatus of military and despotic authority was everywhere displayed; no man dared to trust his next neighbour, nor one of the pale citizens to betray, by look or word, his feelings or sympathy. |
 | | The terror which prevailed in Paris, under the Rule of the Jacobins, or in Rome, during the proscriptions of Marius, Sylla, and the Triumviri, and under the reigns of Tiberius, Nero, Caligula, and Domitian, was never deeper, or more universal, than that of Ireland, at this fatal and shameful period. |
 | | It was, in short, the feeling which made the People, soon after, passively acquiesce in the Union, and in the extinction of their name as a Nation. |
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