| Ireland - 1800 - 584 pages
...is called en to furrender them all to tha controul of whom? To a great and powerful continent, tot whom nature intended her as an appendage ? To a mighty"...people, totally exceeding her in all calculation of territority and population? No», but to another happy little ifland placed be(ide her in the bofom... | |
| William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...enjoying and acknowledging her prosperity. She is called on to surrender them all to the control— of whom ? Is it to a great and powerful continent, to...appendage ? To a mighty people, totally exceeding her rn all calculation of territory or population ? No, but to another happy little island, placed beside... | |
| Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...make it necessarv. 2* her prosperity, is called upon to surrender them all to the control, of whom ? To a great and powerful continent, to whom nature...totally exceeding her in all calculation of territory and population ? No—but to another happy little island, placed beside her in the bosom of the Atlantic,... | |
| John Gordon Swift MacNeill - Great Britain - 1836 - 136 pages
...Ireland, in which he describes England as " another happy little island placed beside her (Ireland) in the bosom of the Atlantic, of little more than...possessing resources not nearly so superior to her competent authority, well worthy of development. According to Professor Hull, the Leinster coal-basin... | |
| Esq. John Levy - Home rule - 1843 - 236 pages
...lodging her prosperity (hear, hear). She is called on to sur" render them all to the control of — whom? Is it to a great and " powerful continent, to whom nature intended her as an appen" dage — to a mighty people, totally exceeding her in all calculation " of territory or population... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...enjoying and acknowledging her prosperity. She is called on to surrender them all to the control of — whom ? Is it to a great and powerful continent, to...possessing resources not nearly so superior to her wants." It was also argued, that such would be the discontent engendered throughout the country by the extinction... | |
| John Simpson Armstrong, Edward Shirley Trevor - Ireland - 1844 - 1008 pages
...and acknowledging her " prosperity. She is called on to surrender them all to the control " of — whom ? Is it to a great and powerful continent, to...Atlantic, of little more than double her territory and popula' tion, and possessing resources not nearly so superior to her wants." Gentlemen of the Jury,... | |
| Daniel O'Connell - Ireland - 1844 - 1016 pages
...and acknowledging her " prosperity. She is called on to surrender them all to the control " of — whom ? Is it to a great and powerful continent, to...placed beside her in the bosom of " the Atlantic, oflittle more than double her territory and popula" tion, and possessing resources not nearly so superior... | |
| William Conyngham Plunket Baron Plunket - Ireland - 1862 - 492 pages
...called on to surrender them all, to the control of whom ? To a great and powerful continent, to which nature intended her as an appendage ? To a mighty...totally exceeding her in all calculation of territory and population ? No, but to another happy little island placed beside her in the bosom of the Atlantic,... | |
| William Conyngham Plunket Baron Plunket - Ireland - 1867 - 494 pages
...called on to surrender them all, to the control of whom ? To a great and powerful continent, to which nature intended her as an appendage '? To a mighty...people, totally exceeding her in all calculation of terri-. tory and population ? No, but to another happy little island placed beside her in the bosom... | |
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