| Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - Authors, Irish - 1904 - 544 pages
...the lost sinner an opportunity of repenting." Here there were inquiring glances, and a lull, and a silence, which was scarcely broken until Parnell finished...peasants of Connaught showed how ready they were to practice as Parnell had preached. Captain Boycott, the agent of Lord Erne, had been offered by the... | |
| Herbert Woodfield Paul - Great Britain - 1905 - 432 pages
...when you meet him, you must show him in the streets of the town, you must show him at the shop isso. counter, you must show him in the fair and in the...men and to transgress your unwritten code of laws'." l Repulsive as the cold malignity of this passage is, the social ostracism preached by Parnell did... | |
| John Howard Parnell - 1914 - 338 pages
...you must show him on the roadside when you meet him, you must show him in the streets and the town, you must show him at the shop counter, you must show...men, and to transgress your unwritten code of laws. This terrible anathema had immediate effect, and its success resulted in the still more rapid growth... | |
| John Adye Curran - Fenians - 1915 - 332 pages
...him severely alone, by putting him in a moral Coventry, by isolating him from his kind as if he were a leper of old — you must show him your detestation...men, and to transgress your unwritten code of laws." Right loyally did the peasantry act upon the advice of their leaders. Their resistance to processservers... | |
| John Howard Parnell - 1916 - 344 pages
...putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating him from his kind as if he was a leper of old—you must show him your detestation of the crime he has...men, and to transgress your unwritten code of laws. This terrible anathema had immediate effect, and its success resulted in the still more rapid growth... | |
| M. M. O'Hara - Ireland - 1919 - 372 pages
...moral Coventry ; by isolating him from the rest of his country, as if he were the leper of old—you must show him your detestation of the crime he has...men and to transgress your unwritten code of laws." If that be not a dramatic climax of Attic simplicity and power, it is surely as near an approach to... | |
| St. John Greer Ervine - Ireland - 1925 - 388 pages
...severely alone, by putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating him from his kind as if he were a leper of old — you must show him your detestation...men and to transgress your unwritten code of laws." His audience knew exactly what he meant, for one of them, with the quick wit of his race, anticipated... | |
| St. John Greer Ervine - Ireland - 1925 - 356 pages
...severely alone, by putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating him from his kind as if he were a leper of old — you must show him your detestation...men and to transgress your unwritten code of laws." His audience knew exactly what he meant, for one of them, with the quick wit of his -race, anticipated... | |
| Liam O'Flaherty - Politicians - 1927 - 330 pages
...severely alone, by putting him into a moral Coventry, by isolating him from his kind as if he were a leper of old - you must show him your detestation...and to transgress your unwritten code of laws.' The people adopted this law with enthusiasm. Rapidly the country passed into the hands of the Land League,... | |
| Railroads - 1910 - 614 pages
...be no man so full of avarice, so lost to shame, as to dare the public opinion of all right thinking men and to transgress your unwritten code of laws."...called, was accepted with popular enthusiasm. Three days afterward, the men of Connaught showed how ready they were to practice as Parnell had preached. Captain... | |
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