The Case of Ireland, Being an Examination of the Treaty of Union Between Great Britain and Ireland: And an Enquiry Into the Manner in which it Has Been Carried Out : Together with Some Letters on the Excessive Taxation of Ireland

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Ridgway, 1863 - 236 стор.

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Сторінка 82 - Exchequer], that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law), four things are to be discerned and considered: — 1st.
Сторінка 68 - Ireland have severally agreed and resolved, that, in order to promote and secure the essential interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to consolidate the strength, power, and resources of the British Empire, it will be advisable to concur in such measures as may best tend to unite the two kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland...
Сторінка 45 - His majesty is persuaded, that the unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere in their avowed design of effecting the separation of Ireland from this kingdom cannot fail to engage the particular attention of parliament ; and his majesty recommends it...
Сторінка 46 - The unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere in their avowed design of endeavouring to effect a separation of this kingdom from Great Britain, must have engaged your...
Сторінка 174 - Land and capital stock are the two original sources of all revenue both private and public. Capital stock pays the wages of productive labour, whether employed in agriculture, manufactures, or commerce.
Сторінка 188 - The annual produce of the land and labour of any nation can be increased in its value by no other means, but by increasing either the number of its productive labourers, or the productive powers of those labourers who had before been employed.
Сторінка 205 - It would be impossible for language " to convey an idea of the state of distress to which " the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the " disease, misery, and even vice, -which they have " propagated in the towns wherein they have settled; " so that not only they who have been ejected have " been rendered miserable, but they have carried with " them and propagated that misery.
Сторінка 27 - We call that the Necessary Law of Nations which consists in the application of the law of nature to nations. It is necessary, because nations are absolutely bound to observe it. This law contains the precepts prescribed by the law of nature to states on whom that law is not less obligatory than on individuals.
Сторінка 67 - I make the assertion deliberately — I repeat it, and I call on any man who hears me to take down my words.
Сторінка 200 - ... voluntary bounty of those who might be acquainted with the exigencies of their situation, and in the way of affording assistance. And, therefore, when the partition of property is rigidly maintained against the claims of indigence and distress, it is maintained in opposition to the intention of those who made it, and to his, who is the Supreme Proprietor of every thing, and who has filled the world with plenteousness for the sustentation and comfort of all whom he sends into it.

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