Gilbert's method of treatment has this disadvantage, that it must be carried out to the last extremity, or it ought not to be tried at all. The dead do not come back ; and if the mothers and babies are slaughtered with the men, the race gives no further... The rock of Arranmore, a dramatic poem - Page 141by John O'Neill - 1904Full view - About this book
| James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1866 - 584 pages
...ford near Kilmalloch single-handed against a troop of Irish horse, to cover the passage of his people. He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage...strangled the cubs and rooted out the entire broods. And not he only, but Elizabeth's representative, the statesman, the gentleman, the accomplished Sidney,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1866 - 624 pages
...ford near Kiknalloch single-handed against a troop of Irish horse, to cover the passage of his people. He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage...strangled the cubs and rooted out the entire broods. And not he only, but Elizabeth's representative, the statesman, the gentleman, the accomplished Sidney,... | |
| James Cotter Morison - Ireland - 1868 - 146 pages
...his conduct, and remained in favour with the deputy. Gilbert, who was left in command at Kilmalock, was illustrating yet more signally the same tendency...strangled the cubs, and rooted out the entire broods." Mr. Froude adds that this method of treatment had the disadvantage that it must be carried out to the... | |
| William Stewart Trench - Land tenure - 1871 - 402 pages
...of colonies, an explorer of unknown seas, a man of science, and, above all, a man of special piety. He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage...strangled the cubs, and rooted out the entire broods.' — Ibid., vol. xp 508. ' The Gilbert method of treatment,' says Mr. Froude again, ' has this disadvantage,... | |
| Mary Francis Cusack - Cork (Ireland : County) - 1875 - 644 pages
...have scarcely leftt he breast." — History of England, vol. x.,p. 308. And again :— " He (Gilbert) regarded himself as dealing rather with savage beasts than with human beings, and when he hunted them to their dens, he strangled the Arab and rooted out the entire brood." And then (his amiable... | |
| Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 606 pages
...who carried the English flag into the western hemisphere .... above all, a man of ' special piety.' He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage beasts than with human beings (in Ireland), and, when he tracked them to their dens, he strangled the cubs, and rooted out the entire... | |
| Augustus J. Thébaud - Ireland - 1878 - 574 pages
...who carried the English flag into the western hemisphere .... above all, a man of ' special piety.' He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage beasts than with human beings (in Ireland), and, when he tracked them to their dens, Tie strangled the cubs, and rooted out the entire... | |
| REV. AUG. J. THEBAUD, S.J. - 1879 - 564 pages
...piety.' He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage beasts than with human beings (in Ireland), and, when he tracked them to their dens, he strangled the cubs, and rooted out the entire brood. " The Gilbert method of treatment has this disadvantage, that it must be carried out to the... | |
| Alexander Martin Sullivan - Ireland - 1892 - 686 pages
...of colonies, an explorer of unknown seas, a man of science, and, above all. a man of special piety. He regarded himself as dealing rather with savage beasts than with human beings,and when he tracked them to their dens, he strangled the cubs and rooted out the entire broods."\... | |
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