 | Michael Bernard Buckley - 1868 - 436 pages
...picture of the Irish peasantry, drawn by that most candid observer of Irish affairs, Arthur Young : — * "A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect, or... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1870 - 540 pages
...on the poor people, and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England. The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will. To discover what the liberty of a people is, we must live among them, and not look for it in the statutes... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1870 - 554 pages
...on the poor people, and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England. The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will. To discover what the liberty of a people is, we must live among them, and not look for it in the statutes... | |
 | George Sigerson - 1871 - 358 pages
...on the poor people, and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England. The landlord of an Irish estate, inhabited by Roman...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will." No cultivator dared disobey him ; horsewhipping, knocking down, were spoken of in a way to make an... | |
 | George Sigerson - 1871 - 356 pages
...on the poor people, and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England. The landlord of an Irish estate, inhabited by Roman Catholics, is a sort of despot, who y1elds obedience, in whatever concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will." No cultivator dared... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 388 pages
...Arthur Young concludes a vivid description of the relation between the classes by the assertion that ' a landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, or labourer, or cottier dares to refuse to execute ; ' and the total absence of independence on the... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1871 - 382 pages
...Arthur Young concludes a vivid description of the relation between the classes by the assertion that ' a landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, or labourer, or cottier dares to refuse to execute ; ' and the total absence of independence on the... | |
 | Joseph Fisher (F.R.H.S.) - 1877 - 176 pages
...the Catholics." The same traveller thus describes the condition of the Irish people in 1778 : — " A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant labourer or cottier dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 734 pages
...better.' Yet, even at this time, he assures us, ' the landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Eoman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience,...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will. ... A long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1883 - 662 pages
...better.' Yet, even at this time, he assures us, ' the landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Koman Catholics is a sort of despot, who yields obedience,...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will. ... A long series of oppressions, aided by many very ill-judged laws, have brought landlords into a habit... | |
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The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman Catholics, is a sort of despot who yields obedience in whatever concerns the poor to no law but that of his own will. 
