 | Dean King, John B. Hattendorf, J. Worth Estes - History - 2000 - 532 pages
...Savage, 1744] I love him.' " About Ireland, Boswell records Johnson: " 'There is no instance, even in ten persecutions, of such severity as that which the...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... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 226 pages
...unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance ... of such severity as that which the 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... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 737 pages
...Catholics — and added, (4) To extirpate the Race. "There is no instance," says Dr. Samuel Johnson, "even in the Ten Persecutions, of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland exercised against the Catholics." l Like good wine the Penal code improved with age. It was only in... | |
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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. 
