 | S. G. Hobson - 1912 - 236 pages
...with a rapidity astonishing even to herself." Lord Clare was even more emphatic : — " There is not a nation on the face of the habitable globe which...the same rapidity in the same period as Ireland." Granting, as we must, that this was very good business for the Irish capitalists and landlords, and... | |
 | 1915 - 314 pages
...leader of the insurrection of "1803, Robert Emmet. Lord Clare, in 1797, had said that " no nation had advanced in cultivation, in agriculture, in manufactures,...the same rapidity, in the same period, as Ireland from 1782 to 1798. Why, then, my friends, did her progress stop? Why did her prosperity cease ? " Her... | |
 | Éamon De Valera - 1918 - 60 pages
...power to legislate for themselves. — Guild of Merchants. Resolution, January 14, 1799. There is not 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 — from 1772 to 1798. — Lord... | |
 | Ruth Russell - 1920 - 176 pages
...usurpation, we might in the coming years hope to rival the boast of Lord Clare in 1798: "There is not 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 — from 1782 to 1798." and that... | |
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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 
