The Quarterly Review, Томи 55 – 56John Murray, 1836 |
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... Ireland . Though the above picture is a dark one , it but faintly resembles the blackness of Ireland . The misery ' of Brittany would be unheard - of luxury there . Pork , beef , butter , soup , bread , puddings , and cakes , ' are ...
... Ireland . Though the above picture is a dark one , it but faintly resembles the blackness of Ireland . The misery ' of Brittany would be unheard - of luxury there . Pork , beef , butter , soup , bread , puddings , and cakes , ' are ...
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... IRELAND alone excepted ! Even Siberia has its poor - law ! The despotic government of Russia holds itself responsible for affording the means of existence to every one of its subjects . In Ireland alone is to be found a population ...
... IRELAND alone excepted ! Even Siberia has its poor - law ! The despotic government of Russia holds itself responsible for affording the means of existence to every one of its subjects . In Ireland alone is to be found a population ...
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... Ireland has no parallel on the face of the globe in any nation , savage or civilized ! A population of eight millions , left to live or die as it may happen ! And what is the consequence of such neglect ? Let the tremendous power ...
... Ireland has no parallel on the face of the globe in any nation , savage or civilized ! A population of eight millions , left to live or die as it may happen ! And what is the consequence of such neglect ? Let the tremendous power ...
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... Ireland , there is a striking uniformity in the wretched poverty of the people through every quarter of the country , varied only by the different characters of individual landlords or of their agents . The discrepancies that appear on ...
... Ireland , there is a striking uniformity in the wretched poverty of the people through every quarter of the country , varied only by the different characters of individual landlords or of their agents . The discrepancies that appear on ...
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... Ireland without an atrocious violation of the rights of property ! What are his lord- ship's notions of the rights of life ? are they protected by the law of Ireland ? or are they so subordinate to the rights of property , that hundreds ...
... Ireland without an atrocious violation of the rights of property ! What are his lord- ship's notions of the rights of life ? are they protected by the law of Ireland ? or are they so subordinate to the rights of property , that hundreds ...
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Сторінка 100 - O GOD of Bethel ! by whose hand Thy people still are fed ; Who through this weary pilgrimage Hast all our fathers led ! 2 Our vows, our prayers we now present Before thy throne of grace : God of our fathers ! be the God Of their succeeding race. 3 Through each perplexing path of life Our wandering footsteps guide : Give us each day our daily bread. And raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy covering wings around, Till all our wanderings cease, And, at our Father's loved abode, Our souls arrive in peace.
Сторінка 529 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! Wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable...
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Сторінка 529 - We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effect this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet.
Сторінка 498 - Locke, instructed and delighted the world. When the bookseller offered Milton five pounds for his Paradise Lost, he did not reject it, and commit his poem to the flames — nor did he accept the miserable pittance as the reward of his labours: he knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it.'f Mr.
Сторінка 529 - ... dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice.
Сторінка 159 - I thus, sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She . has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves ; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.
Сторінка 498 - I wish popularity : but it is that popularity, which follows, not that which is run after; it is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.
Сторінка 529 - ... a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining a violet. Yet we should be cautious, while we condemn the inhumanity, how we censure the wisdom of the practice. It might impart a gusto.
Сторінка 87 - Being asked whether he had ever heard of any interruption or challenge made by Sir Robert Grosvenor or his ancestors, said No : but that he was once in Friday Street, London, and walking up the street, he observed a new sign hanging out with these arms thereon, and inquired what inn that was that had hung out these arms of Scrope...