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... moral interest in such a story . It is a long agony , of which the only interest lies in the prospect of its long - deferred close . Yet a knowledge of these events must be of the highest practical im- portance to those who may be ...
... moral interest in such a story . It is a long agony , of which the only interest lies in the prospect of its long - deferred close . Yet a knowledge of these events must be of the highest practical im- portance to those who may be ...
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... moral and in an industrial point of view . As Ireland is , in its agricultural produce , the supple- ment of England , so are the endowments of the Kelt the supplement to those of the Saxon . What the Saxon wants in liveliness , grace ...
... moral and in an industrial point of view . As Ireland is , in its agricultural produce , the supple- ment of England , so are the endowments of the Kelt the supplement to those of the Saxon . What the Saxon wants in liveliness , grace ...
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... morality , innate in every human breast ; or that an imperfect reverence for them must be everywhere a mark of depravity , and everywhere provoke the just vengeance of the law . They are , on the contrary , im- provements gradually ...
... morality , innate in every human breast ; or that an imperfect reverence for them must be everywhere a mark of depravity , and everywhere provoke the just vengeance of the law . They are , on the contrary , im- provements gradually ...
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... 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 be- longing to a more mature ...
... 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 be- longing to a more mature ...
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... reform . St. Bernard was the moral dictator of the Catholic Church in the early part of the twelfth century , and none could represent with more authority the senti- i . ments of the Catholic world as to the 30 IRISH HISTORY.
... reform . St. Bernard was the moral dictator of the Catholic Church in the early part of the twelfth century , and none could represent with more authority the senti- i . ments of the Catholic world as to the 30 IRISH HISTORY.
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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.