 ... landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the...  The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith - Pàgina 337per Sydney Smith - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Thomas Dunbar Ingram - 1900 - 366 pàgines
...cold. 1 Four years later, Fitzgibbon stated in the same place that the poor in the province of Mrn1ster lived in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed to bear, and that their miseries were intolerable. 2 In 1793, Crumpe drew the following picture of... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1905 - 314 pàgines
...extortion, some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid. Sir, I fear it will require the utmost ability of Parliament to come to the root of these... | |
 | 1820 - 646 pàgines
...so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the Clergy of their tithes ; not in order to alleviare the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might...The poor people of Munster lived in a. more abject stale of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to hear. ' — Oral tan's Speeches, Vol.... | |
 | Donald Rutherford - 1996 - 528 pàgines
...extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the Clergy of their tithes; not in order to alleviate the distresses of...poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear.'—Grattan's Speeches, Vol. I. 292. We are not, of course, in such a discussion, to be governed... | |
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