The Framework of Home RuleE. Arnold, 1911 - 354 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... agricultural wealth lived perpetu- ally on the verge of starvation , beggared not only by extor- tionate rents , partly worked out in virtually forced labour , but by extortionate tithes paid to the alien Anglican Church , * J. Fisher ...
... agricultural wealth lived perpetu- ally on the verge of starvation , beggared not only by extor- tionate rents , partly worked out in virtually forced labour , but by extortionate tithes paid to the alien Anglican Church , * J. Fisher ...
Pagina 51
... agricultural into a manufacturing nation . Ireland was hopelessly late in the race . On the other hand , the fertile land of Ireland remained as the indestructible source of wealth and the prime means of subsistence for the great bulk ...
... agricultural into a manufacturing nation . Ireland was hopelessly late in the race . On the other hand , the fertile land of Ireland remained as the indestructible source of wealth and the prime means of subsistence for the great bulk ...
Pagina 63
... agricultural island . And upon a system comprising all these incompati- bilities there was grafted the ruinous principle of ascendancy . There is nothing inherently strange about the difference between England and Ireland . Artificial ...
... agricultural island . And upon a system comprising all these incompati- bilities there was grafted the ruinous principle of ascendancy . There is nothing inherently strange about the difference between England and Ireland . Artificial ...
Pagina 66
... agricultural land . " Cottier " tenancy , at a competitive rent , and terminable without compensation for the improvements which were made exclusively by the tenant , was general over the greater part of Ireland . Generally it was ...
... agricultural land . " Cottier " tenancy , at a competitive rent , and terminable without compensation for the improvements which were made exclusively by the tenant , was general over the greater part of Ireland . Generally it was ...
Pagina 67
... agriculture into industry , the evil effects of the agrarian system would have been mitigated . As it was , in one of the richest and most fertile countries in the world the congestion and poverty were appalling . Competition for land ...
... agriculture into industry , the evil effects of the agrarian system would have been mitigated . As it was , in one of the richest and most fertile countries in the world the congestion and poverty were appalling . Competition for land ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 50 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country— these were my objects.
Pagina 12 - 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...
Pagina 341 - But, at any rate, our first duty is to secure the well-being of our colonial countrymen; and if in the hidden decrees of that wisdom by which this world is ruled it is written that these countries are not...
Pagina 67 - Of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences in the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Pagina 224 - Any Bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected...
Pagina 241 - That the increase of taxation laid upon Ireland between 1853 and 1860 was not justified by the then existing circumstances.
Pagina 122 - We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.
Pagina 67 - Almost alone amongst mankind the cottier is in this condition, that he can scarcely be either better or worse off by any act of his own. If he were industrious or prudent, nobody but his landlord would gain ; if he is lazy or intemperate, it is at his landlord's expense.
Pagina 7 - Like a spear-point embedded in a living body, it inflamed all around it and deranged every vital function. It prevented the gradual reduction of the island by some native Clovis, which would necessarily have taken place if the Anglo-Normans had not arrived, and, instead of that peaceful and almost silent amalgamation of races, customs, laws, and languages which took place in England, and which is the source of many of the best elements in English life and character, the two nations remained in Ireland...
Pagina 57 - has been, in the first place, whether I was to have the command of the army really or nominally, and then whether the character and discipline of it were to be degraded and ruined in the mode of using it, either from the facility of one man, or from the violence and oppression of a set of men who have for more than twelve months employed it in measures which they durst not avow or sanction.