English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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Page 99
... poverty . Poverty , the consummation which you had reached , and if not the chief grievance of Ireland , the joint product of all her wrongs , their concentrated , and abiding , represen- tative record and result - poverty could not be ...
... poverty . Poverty , the consummation which you had reached , and if not the chief grievance of Ireland , the joint product of all her wrongs , their concentrated , and abiding , represen- tative record and result - poverty could not be ...
Page 157
... poverty , " you will find , on examination , that under average cir- cumstances it is a truism , and that , as applied to the existing state of things , it cannot embody the truth , because it does not contain a meaning . Until the ...
... poverty , " you will find , on examination , that under average cir- cumstances it is a truism , and that , as applied to the existing state of things , it cannot embody the truth , because it does not contain a meaning . Until the ...
Page 158
... poverty " chiefly by paying wages to poor people . A proportion must , therefore , exist between the number of people whom land can support , and the number whom it can profitably employ . The balance was seriously inclining against us ...
... poverty " chiefly by paying wages to poor people . A proportion must , therefore , exist between the number of people whom land can support , and the number whom it can profitably employ . The balance was seriously inclining against us ...
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