The Framework of Home RuleE. Arnold, 1911 - 354 |
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... authority was estab- lished over the whole realm ; and when an effort was also made , not through theft or violence , but by conciliatory statecraft , to replace the native Brehon system of law and land tenure by English institutions ...
... authority was estab- lished over the whole realm ; and when an effort was also made , not through theft or violence , but by conciliatory statecraft , to replace the native Brehon system of law and land tenure by English institutions ...
Strona 37
... authority annulled all instincts of revenge for the hideous wrongs of the past . The Government , now on the verge of a war with the two great Catholic Powers of Europe , began to realize this , and to feel the wisdom of some degree of ...
... authority annulled all instincts of revenge for the hideous wrongs of the past . The Government , now on the verge of a war with the two great Catholic Powers of Europe , began to realize this , and to feel the wisdom of some degree of ...
Strona 38
... authority always seems sacrosanct and agita- tion against it a popular vice , who mistake cause and effect so far as to derive freedom from character , instead of character from freedom , can make , and have made , the conventional case ...
... authority always seems sacrosanct and agita- tion against it a popular vice , who mistake cause and effect so far as to derive freedom from character , instead of character from freedom , can make , and have made , the conventional case ...
Strona 45
... authority of the day , the Irish Parliament . But the truth is that they were without political consciousness , behind the times , unappreciative of the new forces operating round them . In sore need of courageous and enlightened ...
... authority of the day , the Irish Parliament . But the truth is that they were without political consciousness , behind the times , unappreciative of the new forces operating round them . In sore need of courageous and enlightened ...
Strona 103
... county and town govern- ment . Even this step inverted the natural order of things , for the new authorities are hampered in their work by the incessant political agitation for the Home Rule which should have pre- CANADA AND IRELAND 103.
... county and town govern- ment . Even this step inverted the natural order of things , for the new authorities are hampered in their work by the incessant political agitation for the Home Rule which should have pre- CANADA AND IRELAND 103.
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Strona 50 - To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils, and to assert the independence of my country— these were my objects.
Strona 12 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...
Strona 341 - But, at any rate, our first duty is to secure the well-being of our colonial countrymen; and if in the hidden decrees of that wisdom by which this world is ruled it is written that these countries are not...
Strona 67 - Of all the vulgar modes of escaping from the consideration of the effect of social and moral influences in the human mind, the most vulgar is that of attributing the diversities of conduct and character to inherent natural differences.
Strona 224 - Any Bill whereby persons not of European birth or descent may be subjected or made liable to any disabilities or restrictions to which persons of European birth or descent are not also subjected...
Strona 241 - That the increase of taxation laid upon Ireland between 1853 and 1860 was not justified by the then existing circumstances.
Strona 122 - We quit this colony under the full assurance that the English Government has nothing more to require of us, and will allow us to govern ourselves without its interference in future.
Strona 67 - Almost alone amongst mankind the cottier is in this condition, that he can scarcely be either better or worse off by any act of his own. If he were industrious or prudent, nobody but his landlord would gain ; if he is lazy or intemperate, it is at his landlord's expense.
Strona 7 - Like a spear-point embedded in a living body, it inflamed all around it and deranged every vital function. It prevented the gradual reduction of the island by some native Clovis, which would necessarily have taken place if the Anglo-Normans had not arrived, and, instead of that peaceful and almost silent amalgamation of races, customs, laws, and languages which took place in England, and which is the source of many of the best elements in English life and character, the two nations remained in Ireland...
Strona 57 - has been, in the first place, whether I was to have the command of the army really or nominally, and then whether the character and discipline of it were to be degraded and ruined in the mode of using it, either from the facility of one man, or from the violence and oppression of a set of men who have for more than twelve months employed it in measures which they durst not avow or sanction.