The Nineteenth Century, Volume 9Henry S. King & Company, 1881 - Nineteenth century |
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... rule are carrying on a political struggle against the centralising plans which are thought necessary to keep the empire together , whilst below the social strain is beginning to be felt . The agrarian difficulties which were aggravated ...
... rule are carrying on a political struggle against the centralising plans which are thought necessary to keep the empire together , whilst below the social strain is beginning to be felt . The agrarian difficulties which were aggravated ...
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... rule . What can be more discreditable than the condition of Ireland ? A long period of economical and political misdoing has produced its almost inevitable result — a result which we view , as a nation , with mingled feelings of anger ...
... rule . What can be more discreditable than the condition of Ireland ? A long period of economical and political misdoing has produced its almost inevitable result — a result which we view , as a nation , with mingled feelings of anger ...
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... rule and his capricious and unlimited rights over a multitude of dependent followers . It was , in fact , too great a change to be effected suddenly . The habits of a thousand years were not to be set aside by a stroke of the pen or by ...
... rule and his capricious and unlimited rights over a multitude of dependent followers . It was , in fact , too great a change to be effected suddenly . The habits of a thousand years were not to be set aside by a stroke of the pen or by ...
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... rule and custom almost throughout the whole of Ireland — a fact involving the growth of a tenant - right , and logically leading to something like fixity of tenure . Sir W. Petty , as we have seen , not only recognises the fact that the ...
... rule and custom almost throughout the whole of Ireland — a fact involving the growth of a tenant - right , and logically leading to something like fixity of tenure . Sir W. Petty , as we have seen , not only recognises the fact that the ...
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... Rule leader , who has repeatedly declared that he is working at the land question only as the most convenient line of attack upon the British connection , has declared that he will not allow any measure of coercion to pass , and the ...
... Rule leader , who has repeatedly declared that he is working at the land question only as the most convenient line of attack upon the British connection , has declared that he will not allow any measure of coercion to pass , and the ...
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Page 103 - Faintly as tolls the evening chime Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time. Soon as the woods on shore look dim, We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn. Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past.
Page 740 - When the Priest, standing before the table, hath so ordered the bread and wine, that he may with the more readiness and decency break the bread before the people, and take the cup into his hands...
Page 635 - But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
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Page 685 - But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold, and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Page 760 - Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,- — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share...
Page 786 - When in the chronicle of wasted time I see descriptions of the fairest wights, And beauty making beautiful old rhyme, In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights, Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best, Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow, I see their antique pen would have express'd Even such a beauty as you master now.
Page 685 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that in short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast...