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Page vi
... Land Act seemed likely , to a fair and dispassionate observer , to attach Ireland to us , to prove healing . It was easy to see reasons for thinking beforehand that it would not prove healing . 1 But it Now that it is in operation , it ...
... Land Act seemed likely , to a fair and dispassionate observer , to attach Ireland to us , to prove healing . It was easy to see reasons for thinking beforehand that it would not prove healing . 1 But it Now that it is in operation , it ...
Page vii
... Land Courts fixing a judicial rent , will , on the contrary , be very considerable . Most certainly the inference of the people of Ireland will be that the number of extortionate landlords , also , was in fact very considerable . But ...
... Land Courts fixing a judicial rent , will , on the contrary , be very considerable . Most certainly the inference of the people of Ireland will be that the number of extortionate landlords , also , was in fact very considerable . But ...
Page ix
... land is what is needed above all things , and I cannot say that the Land Act appears to me to have in itself the elements for healing it . Nor can I see the use of pretending to find them in it if they are not really there . will say ...
... land is what is needed above all things , and I cannot say that the Land Act appears to me to have in itself the elements for healing it . Nor can I see the use of pretending to find them in it if they are not really there . will say ...
Page ix
... 1 seemed true of any people , they seem me of fie at this hour ? he estrangem is needed Land Ac ts for he § to find Theland and Eng mgs and I canno he to have in me ey are Nothing , indeed , could be more absurd than for.
... 1 seemed true of any people , they seem me of fie at this hour ? he estrangem is needed Land Ac ts for he § to find Theland and Eng mgs and I canno he to have in me ey are Nothing , indeed , could be more absurd than for.
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... Land Act . I think , even , as I have said in the following pages , that the Land Act of the Govern- ment , with what it does and what it gives the power of doing , is probably quite capable of satisfying the Irish people as a Land Act ...
... Land Act . I think , even , as I have said in the following pages , that the Land Act of the Govern- ment , with what it does and what it gives the power of doing , is probably quite capable of satisfying the Irish people as a Land Act ...
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Page 195 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.
Page 9 - 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 197 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 198 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
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Page 288 - We can hardly at the present day understand what Menander meant, when he told a man who inquired as to the progress of his comedy that he had finished it, not having yet written a single line, because he had constructed the action of it in his mind. A modern critic would have assured him that the merit of his piece depended on the brilliant things which arose under his pen as he went along.
Page 291 - These other excellences were his fundamental excellences as a poet ; what distinguishes the artist from the mere amateur, says Goethe, is Architectonic^ in the highest sense ; that power of execution, which creates, forms, and constitutes : not the profoundness of single thoughts, not the richness of imagery, not the abundance of illustration.
Page 9 - I must say from all accounts, and my own observations, that the state of our fellow-countrymen in the parts I have named is worse than that of any people in the world, let alone Europe. I believe that these people are made as we are, that they are patient beyond belief, loyal, but at the same time broken-spirited and desperate, living on the verge of starvation in places where we would not keep our cattle.
Page 8 - 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 3 - I did not obey your instructions ! No, I conformed to the instructions of truth and nature, and maintained your interest against your opinions with a constancy that became me. A representative worthy of you ought to be a person of stability.