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... interests of the people , and their influence on each . Having done all that , I thought I had established my right , and I think it was my duty to turn back and ask what have the Government , the Landlords , and the Pro- testant Church ...
... interests of the people , and their influence on each . Having done all that , I thought I had established my right , and I think it was my duty to turn back and ask what have the Government , the Landlords , and the Pro- testant Church ...
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... interest in politics , they think that economic Ireland is too much forsaken . If an industrial movement is started and they are asked to help , they have neither interest nor hope in the possi- bility of such movements until Home Rule ...
... interest in politics , they think that economic Ireland is too much forsaken . If an industrial movement is started and they are asked to help , they have neither interest nor hope in the possi- bility of such movements until Home Rule ...
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... interest also . It is a pity that Sir Horace Plunkett has published those expressions at a time when they will be interpreted not according to the spirit in which I believe he writes them , but in the shadow of the epidemic of slander ...
... interest also . It is a pity that Sir Horace Plunkett has published those expressions at a time when they will be interpreted not according to the spirit in which I believe he writes them , but in the shadow of the epidemic of slander ...
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... interest in the stability of the funds or the European balance of power . Finally , that no engineering , civil or military , can raise man above the heavens or shake the throne of God . " On that day some nations that do now bestride ...
... interest in the stability of the funds or the European balance of power . Finally , that no engineering , civil or military , can raise man above the heavens or shake the throne of God . " On that day some nations that do now bestride ...
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... interest they take in the Church . The poorest and humblest amongst them regard it as their own , and are proud of it , and with some instinctive untutored feeling recognise and warm to what is good and true in its architecture or its ...
... interest they take in the Church . The poorest and humblest amongst them regard it as their own , and are proud of it , and with some instinctive untutored feeling recognise and warm to what is good and true in its architecture or its ...
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Page 22 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 288 - No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting. "No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave, on the Sabbath day.
Page 140 - ... of the like manufactures have of late been made, and are daily increasing in the kingdom of Ireland, and in the English plantations in America, and are exported from thence to foreign markets, heretofore supplied from England, which will inevitably sink the value of lands, and tend to the ruin of the trade, and the woollen manufactures of this realm; for the prevention whereof, and for the encouragement of the woollen manufactures within this kingdom.
Page 107 - Full religious liberty is granted by the constitution, and part of the income of the ministers of all denominations is paid from the national treasury. The amount thus...
Page 359 - These are they whom we had some time in derision, and for a parable of reproach. We fools esteemed their life madness, and their end without honour. Behold, how they are numbered among the children of God, and their lot is among the saints.
Page 67 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Page 250 - And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of truth, that they might be saved.
Page 440 - ... and that the time for giving it be so fixed, that no child shall be thereby in effect excluded directly or indirectly from the other advantages which the school affords.
Page 78 - ... in the American markets. After that the children were simply at the mercy of their owners, nominally as apprentices, but in reality as mere slaves, who got no wages, and whom it was not worth while even to feed or clothe properly, because they were so cheap and their places could be so easily supplied.
Page 160 - In Limerick, Tipperary, Clare, Meath, and Waterford, there were to be found, in the words of Arthur Young, ' the greatest graziers and cowkeepers perhaps in the world, some who rent and occupy from 3,0001.