A History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Volume 7D. Appleton, 1890 - Great Britain |
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... land after the revolution . - The Timber Acts The middleman Causes that aggravated the competition for land in Ireland Between the completion of the Penal Code and the accession of George III . the changes chiefly economical . After ...
... land after the revolution . - The Timber Acts The middleman Causes that aggravated the competition for land in Ireland Between the completion of the Penal Code and the accession of George III . the changes chiefly economical . After ...
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... land & c . he writes : Motives of Catholic leaders ; not corruption . Some negotiations carried on by one of them in London unknown to the others . The others probably un- willing to risk their estates . ' ( Tone's Life , i . 108 ...
... land & c . he writes : Motives of Catholic leaders ; not corruption . Some negotiations carried on by one of them in London unknown to the others . The others probably un- willing to risk their estates . ' ( Tone's Life , i . 108 ...
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... land . There was also much keen and real distress , for the year 1793 was eminently a ' hard year , ' and great numbers of labourers were out of employ- ment . Defenderism soon ceased to be either a league for mutual protection or a ...
... land . There was also much keen and real distress , for the year 1793 was eminently a ' hard year , ' and great numbers of labourers were out of employ- ment . Defenderism soon ceased to be either a league for mutual protection or a ...
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... land attributed the evil mainly to the republicans of Belfast and Dublin ; to ' the levelling principles of the French Revolu- tion ; ' to associations connected with the United Irishmen which were propagating sedition with unceasing ...
... land attributed the evil mainly to the republicans of Belfast and Dublin ; to ' the levelling principles of the French Revolu- tion ; ' to associations connected with the United Irishmen which were propagating sedition with unceasing ...
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... lands beyond the sea , where the Catholic was not looked upon as a slave , and where Irish talent and ambition found a welcome and a home , continually floated before the imaginations of the people . The letters of the Irish exiles ...
... lands beyond the sea , where the Catholic was not looked upon as a slave , and where Irish talent and ambition found a welcome and a home , continually floated before the imaginations of the people . The letters of the Irish exiles ...
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