Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its Agriculture and Rural Population; in a Series of Letters, Written on a Tour Through that Country, Volume 1Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1818 - Agricultural laborers |
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... one , and found to be practically deserving of adoption . The rents given for lands within half a mile of the town are very high , yet are these grounds in a most wretched VOL . I. C 18 Bowness . condition . It is wonderful , that.
... one , and found to be practically deserving of adoption . The rents given for lands within half a mile of the town are very high , yet are these grounds in a most wretched VOL . I. C 18 Bowness . condition . It is wonderful , that.
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... grounds , nearly to the top of the adjacent mountain . Many hundred acres , which a few years since were covered only with heath , have been brought into cultivation by means of lime , and are now clothed with luxuriant crops of grain ...
... grounds , nearly to the top of the adjacent mountain . Many hundred acres , which a few years since were covered only with heath , have been brought into cultivation by means of lime , and are now clothed with luxuriant crops of grain ...
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... with white clover . It will grow the height of four feet , on good ground , but it seems to prefer a damp soil . It is well calcu- lated for green food , may be cut twice , and • to 44 Holcus lanatus . perhaps thrice in a season .
... with white clover . It will grow the height of four feet , on good ground , but it seems to prefer a damp soil . It is well calcu- lated for green food , may be cut twice , and • to 44 Holcus lanatus . perhaps thrice in a season .
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... grounds , which heretofore yielded nothing but stones ; the la- bor and expense of removing which are enor- mous . I was amused with a defence set up by a poor Irishman , who had taken a job , but declined to proceed with it , alleging ...
... grounds , which heretofore yielded nothing but stones ; the la- bor and expense of removing which are enor- mous . I was amused with a defence set up by a poor Irishman , who had taken a job , but declined to proceed with it , alleging ...
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... grounds entirely ruined by the presence of water . The want of drain- ing , if it rest with the landlord , is deserving of reprobation ; for the yearly tenant cannot be justified to his family by the expenditure of capital on the ...
... grounds entirely ruined by the presence of water . The want of drain- ing , if it rest with the landlord , is deserving of reprobation ; for the yearly tenant cannot be justified to his family by the expenditure of capital on the ...
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Page 198 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 168 - ... are taken up with a general applause, and usually sung at all feasts and meetings by certain other persons, whose proper function that is, who also receive for the same great rewards and reputation amongst them.
Page 39 - Feuds. 39 castle, whose elevated turrets afforded a commanding and extensive view of the surrounding country. No enemy could approach it in the day time, without the garrison having sufficient warning. Vigilance, incessant vigilance, could alone prevent surprise ; to induce which, a favourite maxim became the border motto, and has been handed down to posterity : " If they come, they come not ; If they come not, they come.
Page 266 - Soon after the explosion commenced a number of meteorites fell to the ground over an area a mile and a half in length and half a mile in breadth. The following masses have been collected : — 1.
Page 139 - When popular discontents have been very prevalent; it may well be affirmed and supported, that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution, or in the conduct of the government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the state, it is far otherwise.
Page 139 - When popular discontents have been very prevalent, it may well be affirmed and supported that there has been generally something found amiss in the constitution or in the conduct of Government. The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake.
Page 182 - Israelite ; he was without shoes or stockings, and almost a sans-culotte ; with a coat, or rather a jacket, that appeared as if the first blast of wind would tear it to tatters. Though his garb was thus tattered, he had a manly commanding countenance. I asked permission to see the inside of his cabin, to which I received his most courteous assent. On stooping to enter at the door, I was stopped, and found that permission from another was necessary before 1 could be admitted.
Page 141 - I have heard some great warriors say that, in all the services which they had seen abroad in foreign countries, they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely in his charge...
Page 229 - And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.
Page 168 - Iren. There is amongst the Irish a certain kind of people., called Bards, which are to them instead of poets, whose profession is to set forth the praises or dispraises of men in their poems or...