The Cassell Prize Essay on the Condition of IrelandStrand, 1851 - 125 стор. |
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Сторінка 90 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Сторінка 1 - It would be impossible to describe adequately the privations which they and their families habitually and patiently endure. it will be seen in the evidence, that in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water, that their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather, that a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury, and that nearly in all their pig and manure heap constitute their only property.
Сторінка 14 - Ireland from the enjoyment and use of her own resources; to make the kingdom completely subservient to the interests and opulence of this country, without suffering her to share in the bounties of nature, in the industry of her citizens, or making them contribute to the general interests and strength of the empire. This system of cruel and abominable restraint had however been exploded. It was at once harsh and unjust, and it was as impolitic as it was oppressive...
Сторінка 13 - 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...
Сторінка 42 - ... and especially the race and generation of men, valiant, hard, and active, as it is not easy, no not upon the continent, to find such confluence of commodities, if the hand of man did join with the hand of nature.
Сторінка 44 - I thi.ik, upon the whole, it is the richest soil I ever saw, and such as is applicable to every purpose you can wish : it will fat the largest bullock, and at the same time do equally well for sheep, for tillage, for turnips, for wheat, for beans, and in a .word for every crop and circumstance of profitable husbandry.
Сторінка 33 - ... which have not most commonly been letten to farm, or occupied by the farmers thereof by the space of twenty years...
Сторінка 114 - This, however, is enough to astonish everybody who has not been aware of the facts ; and it is but right that credit should be given to the poor abused Irish for having done their duty. Recollect that the donors are working men and women, and depend upon their daily labour for their daily food ; that they have no settled income to rely upon ; but with that charming reliance upon Divine Providence which characterises the Irish peasant, they freely send their first earnings home to father, mother,...
Сторінка 98 - All ancient legislators (says Niebuhr, when speaking of Numa), and above all Moses, rested the result of their ordinances for virtue, civil order, and good manners, on securing landed property, or at least the hereditary possession of land, to the greatest possible number of citizens.
Сторінка 12 - But if the children were all papists, the father's lands were to be of the nature of gavelkind, and descend equally among them. Papists were disabled from purchasing lands except for terms of not more than thirty-one years, at a rent not less than two-thirds of the full value. They were even to conform within six months after any title should accrue by descent, devise, or settlement, on pain of forfeiture to the next protestant heir; a provision...