 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - 1836 - 136 pages
...in which I find this remarkable passage, to which I beg leave to direct your particular attention. ' There is not,' said his lordship, ' a nation on the...habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in manufactures, with the same rapidity in the same period as Ireland ' (namely, from 1782 to 1798). That... | |
 | Esq. John Levy - 1843 - 236 pages
...find this remarkable passage (hear), to which I beg leave to direct your particular attention : — " There is not" said his lordship, " a nation on the...the same rapidity, " in the same period, as Ireland" (viz., from 1782 to 1798). This was language emphatic and distinct, if ever there was emphasis in human... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell, Henry Shaw - 1844 - 738 pages
...find this remarkable passage, to which I now beg leave to direct your particular attention : — " There is not," said his lordship, " a nation on the...the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland" (viz., from 1782 to 1798.) You have heard proof of the prosperity of Ireland from authority which cannot... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...to the same effect were made by Lord Clare in the Irish House of Lords. " There is not," said he, " a nation on the face of the habitable globe which...the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland" ! Singularly enough, this very advancement was adduced as a reason for the Union, which, it was alleged... | |
 | John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - 1844 - 1008 pages
...in which I find this remarkable passage, to which I beg leave to direct your particular attention: " There is not," said his Lordship, " a " nation on...habitable globe which has advanced in " cultivation, in manufactures, with the same rapidity, in the same " period, as 1 r aland " (vh., from 1782 to 1798).... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1844 - 1016 pages
...to which I beg leave to direct your particular attention: " There is not," said his Lordship, "n " nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in " cultivation, in manufactures, with the same rapidity, in the none " period, as lreland"\viz., from 1782 to 1798). That... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1845 - 428 pages
...remarkable testimony to Irish improvement under the constitution of 1782 : " There is not," said he, " a nation on the face of the habitable globe which...conclusive. It is the admission of enemies, and is * Mr. Wiggins, in his " Monster Misery of Ireland," deplores the manifest deterioration of Ireland... | |
 | William Howitt - 1846 - 376 pages
...of which, you date all your prosperity : — and Lord Clare asserting, in 1798, that "no nation had advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures,...the same rapidity in the same period, as Ireland, from 1782 to 1798." And when to this, the discontented people present you with this SYNOPTIC VIEW OF... | |
 | Martin A. O'Brennan - 1858 - 464 pages
...who were not prejudiced in favor of Ireland. Lord Clare, in his speech in 1798, says, "There is not a nation on the face of the habitable globe, which...the same rapidity, in the same period as Ireland," viz. from 1782 to 1798. Mr. Pitt in his speech of 1799 in favor of the Union, says, "It will be proved... | |
 | H. Marie Martin - 1860 - 20 pages
...since 1789) made the following declaration: " There is not a nation on the face of the inhabitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures, with the same rap'dity, in the same period, as Ireland from 1789 to 1798. Moreover, statistics prove, that during... | |
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There is not,' said his lordship, ' a nation on the face of the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation, in manufactures, with the same rapidity in the same period as Ireland 
