 Thus, not only had all Ireland suffered confiscation in the course of this century, but no inconsiderable portion of it had been twice and even thrice confiscated. Well might Lord Clare say, ' that the situation of the Irish nation, at the Revolution,...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 229by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1876 - 1120 pages
...has been confiscated twice or, perhaps thrice, in the course of a century. The situation therefore of the Irish nation at the Revolution stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. If the wars of England carried on here from the reign of Elizabeth had been waged against a foreign... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Great Britain - 1903 - 372 pages
...confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice, in the course of the century. . . . The situation, therefore, of the Irish nation at the revolution, stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world." Curry writes ' : " Cromwell and his council, finding the utter extirpation of the nation, which they... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Ireland - 1907 - 720 pages
...island has been confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice in the course of a century. The situation therefore of the Irish nation at the Revolution stands unparalleled in the history of the habitable world. . . . What then, was the situation of Ireland at the Revolution and what is it at... | |
 | William Kirby Sullivan - Ireland - 1907 - 606 pages
...has been confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice, in the course of a century. The situation, therefore, of the Irish nation at the Revolution stands unparalleled in the history of the habitable world. . . . The whole power and property of the country has been conferred by successive... | |
 | James K. McGuire - Irish question - 1915 - 348 pages
...confiscated twice, or perhaps thrice, in the course of the century. . . . The situation, therefore, of the Irish nation at the revolution, stands unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. [102] The writer thought it more than passing strange in the islands of the West Indies to find black,... | |
 | Church and education - 1916 - 246 pages
...his speech in the House of Lords, Dublin, on the Second Reading of the Act of Union, 1800 : — (1) " The situation of the Irish nation at the Revolution...unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world... The whole power and property of the country has been conferred by successive monarchs of England upon... | |
 | John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Constitutional history - 1917 - 558 pages
...inconsiderable portion of the island has been confiscated twice or, perhaps, thrice in the course of a century. The situation of the Irish Nation at the Revolution...unparalleled in the history of the inhabited world. " What, then, was the situation of Ireland at the Revolution, and what is it to-day ? The whole power... | |
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