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... regard them as alike survivals of the formerly general habit of ascribing all national action to race - character . On the other hand , I find myself in agreement , on the racial question , with some writers whose political program I ...
... regard them as alike survivals of the formerly general habit of ascribing all national action to race - character . On the other hand , I find myself in agreement , on the racial question , with some writers whose political program I ...
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... strifes of simple re- ligious fanaticism , or of mere habitual faction . Now , the Unionist party cannot well concede , even as regards their main body , that they are proceeding upon the mere habit of opposing Liberal PREAMBLE . ix.
... strifes of simple re- ligious fanaticism , or of mere habitual faction . Now , the Unionist party cannot well concede , even as regards their main body , that they are proceeding upon the mere habit of opposing Liberal PREAMBLE . ix.
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... regard the Irish people , in the lump , as incapable alike of orderly self - government and of industrial development . Men who take the latter view to start with will naturally fail to reach any idea of a solution of the problem : they ...
... regard the Irish people , in the lump , as incapable alike of orderly self - government and of industrial development . Men who take the latter view to start with will naturally fail to reach any idea of a solution of the problem : they ...
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... regard as an unwarrantable strain on their patience . They sit through or vote upon Irish debates because party pressure makes them ; they deal with the question of Welsh Disestablishment because they cannot help it ; they gladly leave ...
... regard as an unwarrantable strain on their patience . They sit through or vote upon Irish debates because party pressure makes them ; they deal with the question of Welsh Disestablishment because they cannot help it ; they gladly leave ...
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... regards our own generation . When anti - Irish Englishmen are not speaking of Irish quarrelsomeness , they are heard to call Irishmen unstable , and untruthful . The latter charge seems peculiarly supererogatory , when we remember that ...
... regards our own generation . When anti - Irish Englishmen are not speaking of Irish quarrelsomeness , they are heard to call Irishmen unstable , and untruthful . The latter charge seems peculiarly supererogatory , when we remember that ...
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Page 165 - I must do it justice : it was a complete system, full of coherence and consistency ; well digested and well composed in all its parts. It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance ; and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people, and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself, as ever proceeded from the perverted ingenuity of man.
Page 300 - ... the superior part has a natural right to govern, the inferior part has a natural right to be governed...
Page 148 - The English, nation was shuddering over the atrocities of the Duke of Alva. The children in the nurseries were being inflamed to patriotic rage and madness by tales of Spanish tyranny. Yet Alva's bloody sword never touched the young, the defenceless, or those whose sex even dogs can recognise and respect.
Page 254 - Unheard-of confiscations were made in the northern parts, upon grounds of plots and conspiracies, never proved upon their supposed authors. The war of chicane succeeded to the war of arms and of hostile statutes ; and a regular series of operations...
Page 148 - ... after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves...
Page 30 - Aryan languages together point to an earlier period of language, when the first ancestors of the Indians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Slaves, the Celts, and the Germans were living together within the same enclosures, nay under the same roof.
Page 252 - ... there is no nation of people under the sun that doth love equal and indifferent justice better than the Irish ; or will rest better satisfied with the execution thereof although it be against themselves; so as they may have the protection and benefit of the law, when upon just cause they do desire it.
Page 130 - Welsh' gold and ' Welsh' steel, where the Scandinavians led a roving life, fighting and sailing, and riding and feasting, by turns ? Where but in the Western Isles? " Again, where could those curious mythologic fancies, which created Walhall, and made of Woden a heavenly Charlemagne, which dreamed, like Caedmon, of the Rood as a tree that spread through the worlds, which pictured the final doom as near, and nursed visions of an everlasting peace, holier even than...
Page 169 - ... sincerity and good faith with which numbers of Englishmen confess themselves incapable of comprehending it. They know not that the disaffection which neither has nor needs any other motive than aversion to the rulers, is the climax to a long growth of disaffection arising from causes that might have been removed. What seems to them the causelessness of the Irish repugnance to our rule is the proof that they have almost let pass the last opportunity they are ever likely to have of setting it right....
Page 158 - that for the space of five years past there have not been found so many malefactors worthy of death in all the six circuits of this realm (which is now divided into thirty-two shires at large) as in one circuit of six shires, namely, the western circuit, in England. For the truth is that in time of peace the Irish are more fearful to offend the law than the English or any other nation whatsoever.