 | John Morley - 1921 - 402 páginas
...describes the Ireland of only a hundred years before, which I will now make time to transcribe : " The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman...obedience in whatever concerns the poor to no law but his own will. Speaking a language that is despised, professing a religion that is abhorred, and being... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - 1891 - 924 páginas
...country gentleman, or, rather, vermin of the kingdom, altogether bear very heavy on the poor people. The landlord of an Irish estate inhabited by Roman...Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, laborer, or colter dares to refuse to execute. Disrespect or anything tending towards snuciness he... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1925 - 286 páginas
...on the poor people and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England173. 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... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 1977 - 242 páginas
...may have been, Massachusetts merchant captains could not be such tyrants or expect such submission. 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... | |
 | Peter Berresford Ellis - 1985 - 376 páginas
...on the poor people, and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever beheld in England. The landlord of an Irish estate, inhabited by Roman...concerns the poor, to no law but that of his will. The Irish legislature was representative of an extremely small minority in the country, namely the... | |
 | Kerby A. Miller - 1988 - 704 páginas
...labor services and endless petty exactions such as "duty fowl"; in the 1770s Arthur Young testified, "A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission." In the early eighteenth... | |
 | John Ranelagh - 1994 - 340 páginas
...Young, the essayist, agricultural experimenter and surveyor, spent from 1776 to 1778 in Ireland, noting: A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottier dares to refuse to execute. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish... | |
 | Gustave de Beaumont - 2006 - 458 páginas
...an impartiality far from common among his compatriots. "The landlord of an Irish estate," says he, "inhabited by Roman Catholics, is a sort of despot...scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar, dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1983 - 286 páginas
...on the poor people and subject them to situations more mortifying than we ever behold in England173. 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... | |
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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. 
