I have before said, the moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pągina 302per Sydney Smith - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Wendell Phillips - 1891 - 508 pągines
...Sydney Smith said, " The moment Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common-sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. ... As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on withholding and... | |
| Alexander Macalister - 1900 - 318 pągines
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feelings, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots." We have seen that in his early life he was an ardent Nationalist and United Irishman. Writing to a... | |
| Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1906 - 386 pągines
...republics. 45. Sydney Smith said, "The moment Ireland is mentioned 5 the English seem to bid adieu to common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. . . . As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on withholding and... | |
| Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pągines
...Sydney Smith said, "The moment Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common-sense, s0 and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. ... As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on withholding and... | |
| Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 pągines
...education in republics. Sydney Smith said, "The moment Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots." "As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on • withholding and... | |
| James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 880 pągines
...education in republics. Sydney Smith said, "The moment Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots." "As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on withholding and forbearing,... | |
| James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 pągines
...education in republics. Sydney Smith said, "The moment Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots." "As long as the patient will suffer, the cruel will kick. ... If the Irish go on withholding and forbearing,... | |
| Charles James O'Donnell - 1924 - 184 pągines
...The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, to common prudence and to common sense and to act with...the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots." One would naturally regard such language as stupidly exaggerated till the doings of the Blacks and... | |
| William Forbes Adams - 1980 - 454 pągines
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.'" Smith himself, though neither barbarous nor fatuous, had no real conception of Irish needs, and most... | |
| Thomas Gallagher - 1987 - 372 pągines
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. —Sydney Smith T, |HE growing, incontrovertible evidence of Ireland's desperation did nothing to quell... | |
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