A tour in Ireland: with general observations on the present state of that kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779H. Goldney, 1780 - 539 pàgines |
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A Tour in Ireland: With General Observations on the Present State ..., Volum 1 Arthur Young Visualització completa - 1780 |
A Tour in Ireland: With General Observations on the Present Statement of the ... Arthur Young Visualització completa - 1780 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 130 - Ireland never thought of a radical cure from overlooking the real cause of the disease, which in fact lay in themselves, and not in the wretches they doomed to the gallows. Let them change their own conduct entirely, and the poor will not long riot.
Pàgina 128 - It must strike the most careless traveller to see whole strings of cars whipt into a ditch by a gentleman's footman, to make way for his carriage ; if they are overturned or broken in pieces, no matter, it is taken in patience ; were they to complain they would perhaps be horsewhipped.
Pàgina 128 - ... proves the oppression under which such people must live. Nay, I have heard anecdotes of the lives of people being made free with, without any apprehension of the justice of a jury.
Pàgina 128 - I am talking nonsense, they know their situation too well to think of it; they can have no defence but by means of protection from one gentleman against another, who probably protects his vassal as he would the sheep he intends to eat.
Pàgina 286 - England, should of late apply itself to the woollen manufacture, to the great prejudice of the trade of this kingdom...
Pàgina 127 - ... if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence. Knocking down is spoken of in the country in a manner that makes an Englishman stare.
Pàgina 141 - It is no superficial view I have taken of this matter in Ireland ; and being at Dublin at the time a very trifling part of these laws was agitated in Parliament, I attended the debates, with my mind open to conviction, and an auditor for the mere purposes of information.
Pàgina 127 - The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will.
Pàgina 118 - If any one doubts the comparative plenty, which attends the board of a poor native of England and Ireland, let him attend to their meals: the sparingness with which our labourer eats his bread and cheese is well known; mark the Irishman's...
Pàgina 37 - As soon as she is horsed, the hurling begins, in which the young fellow appointed for her husband has the eyes of all the company fixed on him. If he comes off conqueror, he is certainly married to the girl; but if another is victorious, he as certainly loses her, for she is the prize of the victor.