 | James Boswell - English literature - 1890 - 568 pages
...The Irish are in a most unnatural state, for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. Johnson rose, and quietly Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board : to punish them by confiscation and... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1890 - 470 pages
...indignation,' ' 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,...severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exer1745. THE STATE OF IRELAND. 331 cised against the Catholics.' The Revolution, which had brought... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1890 - 458 pages
...indignation,' ' 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,...severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exer1745. THE STATE OF IRELAND. 331 cised against the Catholics.' The Revolution, which had brought... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1892 - 518 pages
...Johnson, ' are in a most unnatural state, for we there see the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the Ten Persecutions,...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics.' 1 The penal laws against the Roman Catholics, both in England and Ireland, were the immediate consequence... | |
 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1894 - 660 pages
...Cardinal's words. "There is no instance," says Lecky in his History of England in the Eighteenth Century, " even in the Ten Persecutions, of such severity as...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics" (vol. i. ch. ii.) And, despite their long-continued misgovernment, social persecution, and general... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - Great Britain - 1900 - 324 pages
...indignation," "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 Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." The Revolution, which had brought liberty of worship to England, had only brought harsher and more... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
..."The Irish are in a most unnatural state, for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. onte cadant, parce detorta. Quid autem СгесШо...Varioque ? Ego cur, acquirere pauca Si possum, invid Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board : to punish them by confiscation and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 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 • Prayers and Meditations,... | |
 | Humphrey Joseph Desmond - History - 1901 - 344 pages
...Johnson, " are in a most unnatural state, for we there see the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance, even in the Ten Persecutions,...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." Boswell's Life of Johnson, ch. xxix. XXIII GALILEO Every great scientific truth goes through three... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Ireland - 1903 - 382 pages
...Johnson,1 "are in a most unnatural state, for we there see the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance even in the Ten Persecutions...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." The Catholics were anxious to accept any amelioration in their condition, while their Presbyterian... | |
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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. 
