 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1863 - 608 pages
...Cornwallis.4 Self-government had become impossible. " If ever there was a country," said Lord Hutchinson, " unfit to govern itself, it is Ireland ; a corrupt...commonalty,- a distracted government, a divided people." 5 Imperial considerations, no less paramount, also pointed to the union. Not only had the divisions... | |
 | John D'Alton, James Roderick O'Flanagan - Dundalk (Ireland) - 1864 - 458 pages
...so convinced of anything in politics as of the necessity of this measure. If ever there was a nation unfit to govern itself, it is Ireland; a corrupt aristocracy...to enjoy the power of persecuting each other. The * Memoirs, p. 125. Catholic would murder the Protestant in the name of God ; the Protestant would murder... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - Constitutional history - 1865 - 684 pages
...Cornwallis.4 Self-government had become impossible. " If ever there was a country, said Lord Hutchinson, " unfit to govern itself, it is Ireland ; a corrupt...ferocious commonalty, a distracted government, a divided people."5 Imperial considerations no less paramount, also pointed to the union. Not only had the divisions... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) - 1865 - 672 pages
...Cornwallis.4 Self-government had become impossible. " If ever there was a country," said Lord Hutchinson, " unfit to govern itself, it is Ireland ; a corrupt...ferocious commonalty, a distracted government, a divided people."5 Imperial considerations no less paramount, also pointed to the union. Not only had the divisions... | |
 | William Dool Killen - Christianity - 1875 - 668 pages
...Sir Ralph Abercromby, dated Dundalk, June I2th, 1799, speaks thus on the subject of the Union : — " If ever there was a country unfit to govern itself,...commonalty, a distracted Government, a divided people. . . . The bulk of the people, in my opinion, are by no means averse to the Union. 7 he South is certainly... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1875 - 912 pages
...measures of administration. " If ever there was a country infit to govern itself," said Lord Hutchinson, "it is Ireland. A corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious...commonalty, a distracted Government, a divided people 1 " The real character of this Parliamentary rule was seen in the rejection of Pitt's offer of free... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1877 - 920 pages
...measures of administration. "If ever there was a country uifit to govern itself," said Lord Hutchinson, "it is -Ireland. A corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious...commonalty, a distracted Government, a divided people ! " The real character of this Parliamentary rule was seen in the rejection of Pitt's offer of free... | |
 | Charles William Adam Tait - Great Britain - 1878 - 236 pages
...the Protestant Volunteers, 1779; granted by Lord Rockingham, 1782. (c) Ireland from 1782 to 1800 : "a corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious commonalty, a distracted government, a divided people." 2 Pitt's Early Policy. (a) Free trade between England and Ireland ; rejected by Grattan and the Protestant... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1880 - 596 pages
...measures of administration. " If ever there was a country unfit to govern itself," said Lord Hutchinson, " it is Ireland. A corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious...commonalty, a distracted Government, a divided people ! " The real character of this Parliamentary rule was seen Irish in the rejection of Pitt's offer of... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1882 - 504 pages
...measures of administration. "If ever there was a country unfit to govern itself," said Lord Hutchinson, "it is Ireland. A corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious...commonalty, a distracted government, a divided people!" 1561. The real character of this parliamentary rule was seen in the rejection of Pitt's offer of free... | |
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If ever there was a country unfit to govern itself," said Lord Hutchinson, " it is Ireland. A corrupt aristocracy, a ferocious commonalty, a distracted Government, a divided people !" The real character of this Parliamentary rule was seen in the rejection... 
