English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds: Four Letters from Ireland Addressed to an English Member of Parliament |
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Page 126
... suffer ten times more from the ruin of Irish property than you have suffered during 1846-7 , including both gift and loan . Ruin is more expensive than a famine . Under the ex- isting law the more an Irish proprietor improves his estate ...
... suffer ten times more from the ruin of Irish property than you have suffered during 1846-7 , including both gift and loan . Ruin is more expensive than a famine . Under the ex- isting law the more an Irish proprietor improves his estate ...
Page 137
... suffer . If we take our part of this Irish load , we suffer at once to that extent : if we let Ireland alone , by this means , also , we are to suffer indirectly and later , but to a much greater and indefinite extent . Here is some ...
... suffer . If we take our part of this Irish load , we suffer at once to that extent : if we let Ireland alone , by this means , also , we are to suffer indirectly and later , but to a much greater and indefinite extent . Here is some ...
Page 207
... suffer ; and in this they are not mistaken : the exact cause of their suffering they do not know ; neither is it within their province to know it . Why did not you know it long since ; for none ought to have known it better ? Social ...
... suffer ; and in this they are not mistaken : the exact cause of their suffering they do not know ; neither is it within their province to know it . Why did not you know it long since ; for none ought to have known it better ? Social ...
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