 ... been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 97by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 424 pages
...landlord grasped the whole; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...The poor people of Munster lived in a more abject slate of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear.' — Grattan's Speeches, vol. i.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 530 pages
...landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supjwsed equal to bear.' — Grattan's Speeches, vol. i. 292. • We are not, of course, in... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 558 pages
...landlord grasped the whole : and sorry was he to add, that not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid ; the poor people of Munster lived in a more abject state of povetry than human nature... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear." — Grattan's Speeches, vol. i. 292. We are not, of course, in such... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1847 - 662 pages
...the whole: and sorry I am to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid. I fear it will require the utmost ability of parliament to come to the root of those... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1847 - 480 pages
...that, not satisfied with \ the present extortion, some landlords have been so base as to instigate I , the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes,...that they might add the clergy's share / to the cruel rack rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster ' lived in a more abject state of poverty... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Ireland - 1848 - 482 pages
...unhappy tenantry are ground to powder by relentless landlords. I may add, that some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes in order to add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid. Nothing can be done for their... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Ireland - 1848 - 490 pages
...unhappy tenantry are ground to powder by relentless landlords. I may add, that some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes in order to add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid. Nothing can be done for their... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...landlord grasped the whole; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...already paid. The poor people of Munster lived in a more atjeel ttate of poverty than human nature could be supposed equal to bear." — Oration's Speeches,... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - English essays - 1854 - 338 pages
...landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...of Munster lived in a more abject state of poverty tJian human nature could be supposed equal to bear.'"—Grattan's Speeches, vol. i. 292. We are not,... | |
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