English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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... law . England , also , a class of laws held , I fear , in slender esteem . I mean the game laws . No blacker catalogue of crime and misery was ever registered after an Irish eviction — an act which , even when accompanied by tyranny and ...
... law . England , also , a class of laws held , I fear , in slender esteem . I mean the game laws . No blacker catalogue of crime and misery was ever registered after an Irish eviction — an act which , even when accompanied by tyranny and ...
Page 85
... laws have worked ill , or bad laws worse than was expected , through the corruption or wickedness of the subordinate instru- ments who executed them in detail . In Ireland the matter was otherwise ; the executioners were more merciful ...
... laws have worked ill , or bad laws worse than was expected , through the corruption or wickedness of the subordinate instru- ments who executed them in detail . In Ireland the matter was otherwise ; the executioners were more merciful ...
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... laws are bad because their effects sink deep . When a people has become free , its laws are moulded mainly by its character ; but even then the laws re- act upon the character . It is a common opinion amongst you that the domestic ...
... laws are bad because their effects sink deep . When a people has become free , its laws are moulded mainly by its character ; but even then the laws re- act upon the character . It is a common opinion amongst you that the domestic ...
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