Hennessy

“ Hennessy eyed the perambulator fearsomely. “Have to ask Marm. Faith, do ye think, now, if it had been human, its mother would have given it away same as if it had been a young cat or dog too many in the litter?”
“Mothers don’t have to love their babies; there’s no birth license to sign, you know, with a love-and-cherish clause in it. Just come, wanted or not, and afterward—”
But Hennessy was deep in speculations of his own. “Now if it was Ireland, Miss Leerie, do ye know what I would be thinkin’?” ”

“ HENNESSY, HENRY (1826–1901) , physicist, born at Cork on 19 March 1826, was the second son of John Hennessy of Ballyhennessy, co. Kerry, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Casey of Cork. Sir John Pope-Hennessy [q. v.] was a younger brother. Educated at Cork under Michael Healy, he received an excellent training in classics, modern languages, and mathematics. Deprived as a Roman catholic of a university education, he adopted the profession of an engineer. His leisure was from early youth devoted to mathematical research, in which he engaged quite spontaneously. ”

“ The two brothers, Pat and Mike Hennessy, married two sisters, Mary and Bridget Denver. They were decent tradesmen as any in the two counties, and were well enough to do until the hard times came, when old Ireland saw her poor children starving on every side so that it would melt the heart of a stone, or any thing softer than an English landlord's, to hear tell of it. Well, in the midst of the famine, Mike agreed that he'd come to America, and prepare a place against Patrick should come with Mary and Bridget. ”

“ But she hasn’t mastered color yet. There’s where her genius falls down, eh, Paul? You’ll have to put up with Duddy and Fuddy for a while longer for your trap. By the way, how is Duddy?”
“He’s come around,” she answered, “thanks to Mr. Hennessy.”
“Nothing serious,” the veterinarian added. “He was just off his feed a trifle. It was more a scare of the stableman than anything else.”
Chapter XIII
From the colt pasture to the swimming tank Graham talked with his hostess and rode as nearly beside her as The Fop’s wickedness permitted, while Dick and Hennessy, on ahead, were deep in ranch business. ”

“ This took the Orangeman back a bit, but soon he perks up and slides a bit nearer: ‘I wouldn’t go to Purgatory,’ he says again, and Hennessy goes on: ‘Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper,’ he says, and never heeds him.
“After a while the Down man gets quite mad, and he [Pg 198] moves forward close up to the priest, and looks him straight in the face, and says very loud and distinct:
“‘I wouldn’t go to Pur—ga—to—ry!’ he shouts. ”

“ Mendenhall rode away, a man, on a slender-legged, head-tossing Palomina, rode up to them and was introduced to Graham as Mr. Hennessy, the ranch veterinary.
"I heard Mrs. Forrest was looking over the colts," he explained to his employer, "and I rode across to give her a glance at The Fawn here. She'll be riding her in less than a week. What horse is she on to-day?"
"The Fop," Dick replied, as if expecting the comment that was prompt as the disapproving shake of Mr. Hennessy's head.
"I can never become converted to women riding stallions," muttered the veterinary. "The Fop is dangerous. ”

“ It was on such an occasion that Squint Hennessy and I were making our way back from Church on a summer evening, feeling particularly good after a stirring address from the curate, a favourite of ours. At peace with the world, we each lit a “Woodbine” to light us and cheer us on our way home. By ill-luck Miss Mersham, the numismatics mistress, met us half-way, and threatened to report us if we did not put out our cigarettes immediately. ”

“ A quick startled look passed between Henry and Helen, a look rather wild with the unexpectedness of their father’s question. Henry flushed very [Pg 227] red and looked down dumbly at his piece of bread and butter.
Helen spoke for him, placatingly, “You see, Father ... you see ... Mother never wanted Henry to ... but ... well, Henry has a puppy, sort of.”
Seeing nothing but expectant interest in her father’s face, she went on, “Old Mrs. Hennessy’s Laura had puppies about six weeks ago, and Mrs. Hennessy said Henry could have one. Henry always did want one, so. ”

“ Chapter 15 SATURDAYS were great days for “the Knapp Family, Incorporated.” They were together at home all day, and always with a great variety of schemes on hand. In the morning Henry usually relapsed from his eleven-year-old dignity back into younger days and played with Stephen, especially since the sandpile settlement had been started, and since they had a brood of chickens to care for. Old Mrs. Hennessy came to give the house the weekly, thorough, cellar-to-garret cleaning which Lester had found was the best way to keep Evangeline from spending Sunday with a mop and broom. ”

“ Hennessy cognac, selling at 40,000 reis ($14.00 gold) a bottle; and every variety of canned edible from California pears to Horlick's malted milk, from Armour's corned beef to Heinz's sweet pickles.
Every one was anxious to get started; I, who had more to look forward to than months of monotonous labour in the forests, not the least. ”

“ Fred remarked, as he rubbed his icy hands together in order to induce circulation.
"As fierce as any I've been in this year," admitted the big Hennessy, whose favorite feat of throwing out runners at second had gained him a great name, and who must have been responsible for a number of hits which the Riverport boys had suffered during the "late unpleasantness."
"Getting to be an old story to have you Riverport fellows crow over us," grumbled Boggs, who had been the one to walk away while the battle was still on ”

“ This is a fair campsite for auto parties. A good spring will be found near the Pohono Trail junction. The visit to the wild-flower gardens and many fine lookout points of the Pohono Trail (Trail Trip 18) is an especially fine one-day walking trip from this point.
Our road now leads thru most magnificent pine forests, which open now and then to give us short glimpses of the canyon of the Merced, thousands of feet below. About two miles from Fort Monroe the Hennessy Trail (Trail Trip 25) branches to the right and descends to El Portal, ten miles distant. ”

“ And that rattled us more'n anything else you did; for when you get a crack on the back of the head, it sort of knocks your calculations silly, and you can't pay attention to what you're doing. We surrender, all right."
Besides Wagner there were some of the other baseball stars in the defeated set—-Dolan, who guarded the middle garden, Sherley whose domain was away off in right, Boggs, the energetic shortstop, Hennessy the catcher, who had taunted Fred and his chums So persistently whenever they came to bat, in hopes of making them nervous, and Gould the agile second baseman. ”

“ Th' conversation was informal, but it is undhershtud that th' advisability iv an excursion to Boston to shoot up th' anti-impeeryalist saloons was discussed. Th' prisidint dhropped in durin' th' conference an' greeted all prisint be their first name, which is Bill. There was some good-natured chaff as to which iv th' gintlemen was first at th' top iv San Joon Hill befure th' meetin' broke up. Th' postmasther gin'ral is sufferin' fr'm a slight knife wound.'"
"Ar-re all th' people West iv th' park shootin' men?" asked Mr. Hennessy timidly. ”

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“ Why should the supreme legislature not deny that right of petition to us, if the inferior state legislatures, who are not governments of the citizens of America, claim power to deny us any right they please, as they do by their supposed Eighteenth Amendment to our Constitution? ”

“ Who will undertake to say, as a state officer, that the people may not give to the general government what powers, and for what purposes, they please? How comes it, sir, that these state governments dictate to their superiors—to the majesty of the people? ”

“ With such an education in the school whose training men find it impossible to ignore, the school of actual life, it was mentally impossible that this body of men could either forget or ignore or disobey the basic American law, which then commanded them and still commands us, that no government in America can ever have or exercise any valid national power to interfere with human freedom except by direct grant from its citizens themselves. ”

“ When first we shall hear this 1917 resurrection of the Tory concept that government is master and Americans are “subjects,” that government is the state and we are its assets, we shall naturally be astounded and indignant that even a few inhabitants should still retain what Madison called “the impious doctrine” of the Old World, that people are made for governments, not governments for the people. ”

“ Nor will anyone familiar with the unbroken tradition of the Supreme Court listen, with aught but mingled incredulity and indignation, to the suggestion that the Court itself has not always understood that it is itself but a part of the limited government of the one American people, created by that people as one means to that sole end. ”

“ The prestige and the power of each and every government in America and of all governments in America together were of no importance to these people, except as they contributed to the welfare of the individual. ”

“ If forbearance were the sole rule for conduct, if conscience permitted us to ignore the great danger to our own individual freedom in every matter, we would be absolutely silent as to the contents of all those briefs. ”

“ Even Sheppard must some time have heard the echo of Lincoln’s appeal, at Gettysburg, that government of the people, by them and for them, should not perish from the earth. Even Sheppard must recognize, whether or not he wish to do so, how successfully the American people, whose predecessors made the Constitution, answered that appeal of Lincoln and intend to keep our government a government of the people, by them and for them, instead of a Sheppard government of the people, by governments without authority from the people. ”

“ We have been with them when they gave the government of America, by direct grant from themselves, such enumerated national powers to command them, the citizens of America, as they—not the state governments—deemed wise and necessary to protect their human liberty against all oppressors, including all governments. We have been with them—and we have marveled—while they themselves actually made, by their own action, their amazingly effective distribution of all delegated powers to interfere with individual freedom. ”

“ The Court will never be called upon to exercise a higher or graver trust than to answer the question “Citizen or Subject?”, when the real challenge is made to the new attempted constitution of government of men entirely by government. The Court is not unaware that the whole American people established their Constitution for the one purpose of protecting individual liberty. ”

“ In each nation they were creating the very essence of security for a free people, namely, a government with limited ability to interfere with individual freedom, in some matters, so as to secure the greatest possible protected enjoyment of human liberty. They knew, as only human beings could know who were then offering their very lives to uphold the basic law of America, that such ability could never be validly given to any government by government itself, acting in any manner, but only by direct action and grant of those later to be governed by the exercise of that ability. ”

“ Hennessey. “He’s an American and I’ve never had much dealings with Americans except by letter. By all accounts they are sharp business men, but I daresay he is all right. The thing that gets me is his coming over. Americans don’t go thousands of miles for nothing, but if it’s after any hanky-panky business about the property, maybe he’ll find Jack Hennessey as sharp as any American.”
“He’s some sort of a relation of ours,” said Phyl. ”

“ Is the same doctrine to be revived in the New, in another shape—that the solid happiness of the people is to be sacrificed to the views of political institutions of a different form?... As far as the sovereignty of the states can not be reconciled to the happiness of the people, the voice of every good citizen must be, Let the former be sacrificed to the latter. ”

“ It is that Americans, who have not the conviction that they are great constitutional thinkers, far more quickly than those who have that conviction, can grasp the full meaning of the greatest event in American history. ”

“ When Hamilton knew that these state legislatures were not the legitimate source of national powers in a republic and when he had this view of their general character, will any sane man believe that he advocated that the citizens of America should make these legislatures (although the citizens of America elect not a single member in them) absolute attorney in fact for the citizens of America for all purposes? ”

“ So that we may fairly and justly conclude that one twentieth part of the American people may prevent the removal of the most grievous inconveniences and oppression, by refusing to accede to amendments. A trifling minority may reject the most salutary amendments. Is this an easy mode of securing the public liberty? It is, sir, a most fearful situation, when the most contemptible minority can prevent the alteration of the most oppressive government ”