English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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... legislation , you attributed it to the depravity of Irish nature . Parliament at last met , and it was found expedient to change the whole system of Irish relief . Several other laws were passed , as a compliance with the more innocent ...
... legislation , you attributed it to the depravity of Irish nature . Parliament at last met , and it was found expedient to change the whole system of Irish relief . Several other laws were passed , as a compliance with the more innocent ...
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... legislation is conducted . A mercantile nation is tempted to seek its principles in the counting - house . As a mere matter of policy this counting - house speculation was not without its showy side . The confiscation would have been ...
... legislation is conducted . A mercantile nation is tempted to seek its principles in the counting - house . As a mere matter of policy this counting - house speculation was not without its showy side . The confiscation would have been ...
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... legislative eccentricities in time , that single act might have been sufficient : but the evil conse- quent on such legislation once achieved , it was your duty to provide an effectual remedy . I will not say that you should have ...
... legislative eccentricities in time , that single act might have been sufficient : but the evil conse- quent on such legislation once achieved , it was your duty to provide an effectual remedy . I will not say that you should have ...
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