[61] Your hands alone have a right to conquer the unconquerable. [62] And when Caesar was the only emperor within the dominion of Rome, he suffered me to be another. [63] This bull was really made. [64] Castle Rackrent. [65] Il y a des nations dont l’une semble faite pour être soumise à l’autre. Les Anglois ont toujours eu sur les Irlandois la superiorite du génie, des richesses, et des armes. _La supériorite que les blancs ont sur les noirs_. [66] “On lisait dans les premières éditions, _la supèrioritè que les blancs ont sur les négres_. M. de Voltaire effaça cette expression injurieuse. L’état presque sauvage ou étoit l’Irlande lorsqu’elle fut conquise, la superstition, l’oppression exercée par les Anglois, le fanatisme religieux qui divise les Irlandois en deux nations ennemies, telles sont les causes qui ont retenues ce peuple dans l’abaissement et dans la foiblesse. Les haines religieuses se sont assoupies, et elle a repris sa liberté. _Les Irlandois ne le cédent plus aux Anglois, ni en industrie ni en lumières_.” [67] See O’Halloran’s History of Ireland. [68] Author of Chiysal, or Adventures of a Guinea. [69] Author of the beautiful moral tale Nourjahad. AN ESSAY ON THE NOBLE SCIENCE OF SELF-JUSTIFICATION. * * * * * “For which an eloquence that aims _to vex_, With native tropes of anger arms the _sex_.”--_Parnell._ * * * * * Endowed as the fair sex indisputably are, with a natural genius for the invaluable art of self-justification, it may not be displeasing to them to see its rising perfection evinced by an attempt to reduce it to a science. Possessed, as are all the fair daughters of Eve, of an hereditary propensity, transmitted to them undiminished through succeeding generations, to be “soon moved with slightest touch of blame;” very little precept and practice will confirm them in the habit, and instruct them in all the maxims of self-justification. Candid pupil, you will readily accede to my first and fundamental axiom--that a lady can do no wrong. But simple as this maxim may appear, and suited to the level of the meanest capacity, the talent of applying it on all the important, but more especially on all the most trivial, occurrences of domestic life, so as to secure private peace and public dominion, has hitherto been monopolized by the female adepts in the art of self-justification. Excuse me for insinuating by this expression, that there may yet be amongst you some novices. To these, if any such, I principally address myself.