 | France - 1861 - 828 pages
...1835, et écrit un livre important sur ce pays. Pour quiconque connaît le carac« upon this kingdom/is of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man iWu? « in a dungeon. > (1) Property ruled with savage and tyranntcal sway ? 1ère de M. de Beaumont... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us, than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. As As to shipping of its own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided, that of all the excellent timber cut... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us, than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. As to shipping of its own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided, that of all the excellent timber cut down... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - 1811 - 590 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature hath bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us, than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. As to shipping of its own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided, ihat of all the excellent timber cut down... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us, than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a duugeon. As to shipping of its own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided, that of all the excellent timber... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. As to shipping of its own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided, that of all the excellent timber cut down... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Great Britain - 1836 - 136 pages
...2l6. " The conveniency of ports and harbours, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this country, is of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon."* "Ireland is the only kingdom I ever heard of, either in ancient or modern story, which was denied the... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...ports and harens, which Nature has so bountifully bestowed on Ireland, were of no more use to her, than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. The commercial condition of Ireland at this period may be summed up in a word :— she imported £... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...of discouragements. The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. As to »hipping of it» own, Ireland is so utterly unprovided that, of all the excellent timber cut... | |
 | John Mitchel - Exiles - 1854 - 384 pages
..."The conveniency of ports and havens which nature hath bestowed so liberally upon this kingdom, ia of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon." * Anderson, a standard British writer of those <l;iys, in his "History of Commerce," explains the matter... | |
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The conveniency of ports and havens, which nature has bestowed so liberally on this kingdom, is of no more use to us than a beautiful prospect to a man shut up in a dungeon. 
