English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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... paupers instead of as a test of pauperism , must , I fear , have damped the ardour of several Relief Committees , infecting some members with a spirit of recklessness , and in others fostering that easy good - nature and dislike to ...
... paupers instead of as a test of pauperism , must , I fear , have damped the ardour of several Relief Committees , infecting some members with a spirit of recklessness , and in others fostering that easy good - nature and dislike to ...
Page 144
... pauperism , which would be your wealth if those paupers were spread over your colonies , a heap that threatens plague at the gate of your palace ? A countryman of yours , Sir , remarkable for his wit as well as his knowledge , but who ...
... pauperism , which would be your wealth if those paupers were spread over your colonies , a heap that threatens plague at the gate of your palace ? A countryman of yours , Sir , remarkable for his wit as well as his knowledge , but who ...
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... pauperism be a lament- able spectacle to the eye , English pauperism is more awful far to the mind . That men should hunger amid blighted wastes is intelligible enough ; that they should be lawless is its obvious con- sequence but that ...
... pauperism be a lament- able spectacle to the eye , English pauperism is more awful far to the mind . That men should hunger amid blighted wastes is intelligible enough ; that they should be lawless is its obvious con- sequence but that ...
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