English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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Page 99
... allowed the opportunity to go by . Of all the oppressions with which your England had afflicted this country , there was not one which , by means however various , did not tend towards a common end ; and whether you proscribed her ...
... allowed the opportunity to go by . Of all the oppressions with which your England had afflicted this country , there was not one which , by means however various , did not tend towards a common end ; and whether you proscribed her ...
Page 111
... allowed his estate to be cottiered , and a monster if he evicted the in- truders . It is but just to say that in some cases this over - population had been promoted by a short- sighted ambition to increase the number of forty shilling ...
... allowed his estate to be cottiered , and a monster if he evicted the in- truders . It is but just to say that in some cases this over - population had been promoted by a short- sighted ambition to increase the number of forty shilling ...
Page 255
... energies that preyed on her inwardly , because they were allowed no outward object : help her , in the first instance , to help herself ; and show her no more favour when you have once LET . IV . ] 255 AND IRISH MISDEEDS .
... energies that preyed on her inwardly , because they were allowed no outward object : help her , in the first instance , to help herself ; and show her no more favour when you have once LET . IV . ] 255 AND IRISH MISDEEDS .
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