 | Ireland - 1869 - 608 pages
...as early as the November of 1797. Here follows an extract : — " My lords. I have seen in Ireland the most absurd, as well as the most disgusting tyranny...instances ; I have seen it practised and unchecked ; and the effects that have resulted from it have been such as I have stated to your lordships. I have... | |
 | Ireland - 1869 - 590 pages
...an extract : — "My lords, I have seen in Ireland the most absurd, as well as the most disgustina tyranny that any nation ever groaned under. I have...instances ; I have seen it practised and unchecked ; and the effects that have resulted from it have been such as I have stated to your lordships. I have... | |
 | James Godkin - Ireland - 1870 - 510 pages
...a last and an almost despairing appeal on November 22, in the same year. In his speech he said : ' I have seen in that country a marked distinction made between the English and the Irish. I have seen troops that have been sent full of this prejudice, that every inhabitant of... | |
 | Thomas Nicolas Burke - 1872 - 150 pages
...action of the English government. " My lords," he says, in the House of Lords, " I have seen in Ireland the most absurd, as well as the- most disgusting tyranny...nation ever groaned under. I have been myself a witness to it in many instances ; I have seen it practised unchecked, and the effects that have resulted from... | |
 | Thomas Nicolas Burke - British - 1873 - 252 pages
...action of the English Government. " My Lords," he says, in the House of Lords, " I have seen in Ireland the most absurd, as well as the most disgusting tyranny,...a witness of it in many instances ; I have seen it practiced unchecked, and the effects that have resulted from it have been such as I have stated to... | |
 | Patrick F. Kavanagh - Ireland - 1880 - 316 pages
...exaggeration : — " Before my God and my country I speak of what I myself have seen. I have seen in Ireland the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under. I have seen troops sent full of this prejudice, that every inhabitant of that kingdom is a rebel to the British... | |
 | Charles Bradlaugh - England - 1887 - 328 pages
...1797, in a powerful speech which remained without refutation, described the Government of Ireland as "the most absurd, as well as the most disgusting, tyranny that any nation ever groaned under." He said : "If such a tyranny be persevered in, the consequence must inevitably be the deepest and most... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1890 - 500 pages
...House of Lords in a remarkable speech, in which he declared that this province was suffering under ' the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under ' — a tyranny which if persevered in must inevitably lead to ' the deepest and most universal discontent,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1890 - 522 pages
...House of Lords in a remarkable speech, in which he declared that this province was suffering under ' the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under ' — a tyranny which if persevered in must inevitably lead to ' the deepest and most universal discontent,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1890 - 504 pages
...House of Lords in a remarkable speech, in which he declared that this province was suffering under ' the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under'—a tyranny which if persevered in must inevitably lead to ' the deepest and most universal... | |
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I have seen in Ireland the most absurd as well as the most disgusting tyranny that any nation ever groaned under. 
