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... measures , if necessary , to " reduce his people " from such " barbarism " to " civility . " Our jurists in India have found the same difficulty in recognising as anything but " a scambling possession " the Hindoo cus- tom of succession ...
... measures , if necessary , to " reduce his people " from such " barbarism " to " civility . " Our jurists in India have found the same difficulty in recognising as anything but " a scambling possession " the Hindoo cus- tom of succession ...
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... measure is the highest social morality which they know . When an absentee landlord applies to them the screw of the Middleman , and expects them to recognise the embodiment of social morality in its pressure , he appeals to a sentiment ...
... measure is the highest social morality which they know . When an absentee landlord applies to them the screw of the Middleman , and expects them to recognise the embodiment of social morality in its pressure , he appeals to a sentiment ...
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... measure kept under by the forest police , which partly compensated thereby the evils of the forest laws . It naturally resulted from the nature of the conquest as a private adventure that the castles and fortifications of the conquerors ...
... measure kept under by the forest police , which partly compensated thereby the evils of the forest laws . It naturally resulted from the nature of the conquest as a private adventure that the castles and fortifications of the conquerors ...
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... measures , and Sir Edward Poynings went over as Lord Deputy , armed with the full power of Government , and charged to effect a general reformation . Sir Edward's military efforts were for the most part baffled by the nimbleness and ...
... measures , and Sir Edward Poynings went over as Lord Deputy , armed with the full power of Government , and charged to effect a general reformation . Sir Edward's military efforts were for the most part baffled by the nimbleness and ...
Page 74
... measures were taken by the English governors of Ireland , in whose administration the deep and reflecting statecraft of a politic age now began to appear , to undermine the authority of the chiefs , by detaching from them the allegiance ...
... measures were taken by the English governors of Ireland , in whose administration the deep and reflecting statecraft of a politic age now began to appear , to undermine the authority of the chiefs , by detaching from them the allegiance ...
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Page 145 - IT is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
Page 80 - Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves...
Page 80 - ... as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves, and if they found a plot of water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man or beast.
Page 169 - But all this is trifling compared to the numberless murders that are hourly committed by our people without any process or examination whatever. The yeomanry are in the style of the loyalists in America, only much more numerous and powerful, and a thousand times more ferocious.
Page 170 - The principal persons of this country and the members of both houses of parliament, are in general averse to all acts of clemency...
Page 131 - Whilst this restraint of foreign and domestic education was part of an horrible and impious system of servitude, the members were well fitted to the body. To render men patient under a deprivation of all the rights of human nature, everything which could give them a knowledge or feeling of those rights was rationally forbidden. To render humanity fit to be insulted, it was fit that it should be degraded.
Page 84 - Indeed they went away with sound of trumpet, for they did nothing but publish and trumpet all the reproaches they could devise, against the Irish land and nation ; insomuch as d'Aquila said in open treaty, that when the devil upon the mount did shew Christ all the kingdoms of the earth, and the glory of them, he did not doubt but the devil left out Ireland, and kept it for himself.