 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pages
...The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholicks. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board : to punish them by confiscation... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 626 pages
...The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them it would be above board : to punish them by confiscation and... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Ireland - 1907 - 716 pages
..."The Irish are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above-board; to punish them by confiscation and... | |
 | 1907 - 728 pages
...were worse than the ten pagan persecutions of the early Christians. "There is no instance," said he, "even in the ten persecutions of such severity as...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." One might well expect that the Protestants of Ireland of to-day would be only too eager to make amends... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 712 pages
...The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions, of such severity as 1 Prayers and Meditations, p. 4o. that which the protestants of Ireland have exercised against the... | |
 | Louis François Alphonse Paul-Dubois - Ireland - 1908 - 558 pages
...lasting an influence upon the future of Ireland. Dr. Johnson, a strong Tory, said of them — i4 " There is no instance even in the ten persecutions...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." These laws remained in full force for half a century ; but in the latter half of the ^ eighteenth century... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1852
...The Irish are in a most unnatural state, for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board : to punish them by confiscation 1... | |
 | Celtic philology - 1912 - 296 pages
...Tohnson, "are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minoritv prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them that we had conquered them, it would be above board. To punish them by confiscation... | |
 | 1914 - 758 pages
...minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance^ even in the ten persecutions (of Rome) of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board; to punish them by confiscation and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 606 pages
...'The Irish are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions,...protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholicks. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board: to punish them by confiscation... | |
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The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the ten persecutions, of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. 
