Irish History and the Irish Question: By Goldwin SmithMcClure, Phillips & Company, 1905 - 270 стор. |
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afterwards agrarian Anglo-Norman appears bill bishops boroughs Brehon law Britain British Parliament called Castle Catholic emancipation cause Celt cent character chief Church clergy colonies commercial congested districts board conquest constitution of 1782 Crown deputy Dublin effect election emigration Encumbered Estates Act England English evicted evil failed fair rent famine Fenians feudal force Gladstone Grattan hands hatred heart holding House hovels improvements Irish Parliament Irishman justice king land purchase landlord and tenant leaders legislation Liberal Lord measure ment military murdered nation native Irish O'Connell owners ownership Pale Parlia Parliamentary Parnell party passed patriotism peasantry Peel pocket boroughs political priesthood Protestant Protestantism purchase money question race rebellion reform religion religious repeal repression revolution Scotland seems sentiment settlement side sion social struggle T. P. O'Connor term rents tion tithe-proctor tithes tribal Ulster union vote W. E. Forster Young Ireland
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Сторінка 75 - ... raised throughout the kingdom, purchases made by one from another at very valuable rates, and jointures made upon marriages, and all other conveyances and settlements executed, as in a kingdom at peace within itself, and where no doubt could be made of the validity of titles.
Сторінка 70 - I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches, who have imbrued their hands in so much innocent blood ; und that it will tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future. Which are the satisfactory grounds to such actions, which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret.
Сторінка 192 - And whereas certain representatives of owners and occupiers have been desirous of endeavouring to find such basis, and for that purpose have met in conference together ; And whereas certain particulars of agreement have been formulated, discussed, and passed at the Conference, and it is desirable that the same should be put into writing and submitted to His Majesty's Government. After consideration and discussion of various schemes submitted to the Conference we are agreed : I. That the only satisfactory...
Сторінка 93 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Сторінка 117 - ... persons, who, born to a large inheritance , and having no profession to interrupt their propensities, generally made in those times the grand tour of Europe , as the finishing part of a gentleman's education. Mr. Bagenal followed the general course ; and on that tour had made himself very conspicuous. He had visited every capital of Europe , and had exhibited the native original character of the Irish gentleman at every place he visited. In the splendour of his travelling establishment, he quite...
Сторінка 63 - ... and agreements do not limit and restrain that right, what people can be secure ? England hath been conquered, and Wales hath been conquered ; and by this reason will be in little better case than Ireland. If the king by the right of a conqueror gives laws to his people, shall not the people, by the same reason, be restored to the right of the conquered to recover their liberty if they can ? " Strafford had alleged good intentions as an excuse for his evil counsels.
Сторінка 141 - For my own part, I will resist it to the last gasp of my existence and with the last drop of my blood, and when I feel the hour of my dissolution approaching, ! will, like the father of Hannibal, take my children to the altar, and swear them to eternal hostility against the invaders of their country's freedom.
Сторінка 117 - I am to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of their tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid.
Сторінка 174 - Ireland, the landlord builds neither dwelling-house nor farm-offices, nor puts fences, gates, &c. into good order, before he lets his land to a tenant. The cases in which a landlord does any of those things are the exceptions.