A History of Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1892 - Ireland |
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... Extreme poverty . Famine . 181 The commercial policy of England towards Ireland not peculiar . 188 • Its political consequences 190 • Subordination of the Irish Parliament . The Revenue Constitution of the Irish Parliament 192 · 194 ...
... Extreme poverty . Famine . 181 The commercial policy of England towards Ireland not peculiar . 188 • Its political consequences 190 • Subordination of the Irish Parliament . The Revenue Constitution of the Irish Parliament 192 · 194 ...
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... Extreme dread of Catholic ascendency . Schism between the landlords and tenants Its effect upon Irish literature PAGE 252 254 260 269 270 273 275 278 279 279 280 281 Upon the character of the gentry 281 Many influences conspire to ...
... Extreme dread of Catholic ascendency . Schism between the landlords and tenants Its effect upon Irish literature PAGE 252 254 260 269 270 273 275 278 279 279 280 281 Upon the character of the gentry 281 Many influences conspire to ...
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... extreme desire to discover new and rapid paths to wealth . This spirit showed itself in the immense development of maritime enterprise both in the form of discovery and in the form of piracy , and still more strongly in the passion for ...
... extreme desire to discover new and rapid paths to wealth . This spirit showed itself in the immense development of maritime enterprise both in the form of discovery and in the form of piracy , and still more strongly in the passion for ...
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... extreme illness is often followed , with a strange rapidity , by a sudden reflux of exuberant health . When a nation has been brought to the utmost extremities of anguish ; when almost all the old , the sick , the feeble have been ...
... extreme illness is often followed , with a strange rapidity , by a sudden reflux of exuberant health . When a nation has been brought to the utmost extremities of anguish ; when almost all the old , the sick , the feeble have been ...
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... extreme , and the conviction of the Connaught gentry that no real justice could be obtained was so strong that they offered to purchase a new confirmation of their patents by doubling their annual compositions , and by paying to the ...
... extreme , and the conviction of the Connaught gentry that no real justice could be obtained was so strong that they offered to purchase a new confirmation of their patents by doubling their annual compositions , and by paying to the ...
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