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... portions , thus enabling the frugal and self - denying to invest their savings in land . The first requisites for the success of such a class must be energy and agricultural skill . Their peculiar position as proprietors , would , of ...
... portions , thus enabling the frugal and self - denying to invest their savings in land . The first requisites for the success of such a class must be energy and agricultural skill . Their peculiar position as proprietors , would , of ...
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... portion of it . A low standard of life must obtain , equally where earnings are insufficient and where labour is excessive . It is generally thought the mark of a low state of civilisation when women are obliged to go forth in search of ...
... portion of it . A low standard of life must obtain , equally where earnings are insufficient and where labour is excessive . It is generally thought the mark of a low state of civilisation when women are obliged to go forth in search of ...
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... portions of the world . This consideration is surely worthy of attention on the part of those who imagine that a reduced rate of increase is by itself the appropriate cure for over - population . Such a remedy , used alone , would check ...
... portions of the world . This consideration is surely worthy of attention on the part of those who imagine that a reduced rate of increase is by itself the appropriate cure for over - population . Such a remedy , used alone , would check ...
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... portion between numbers and employment . It is computed that there were two millions of acres under the potato culture ; and on the ordinary calculation that it requires three acres even of oats to produce as much human food as one acre ...
... portion between numbers and employment . It is computed that there were two millions of acres under the potato culture ; and on the ordinary calculation that it requires three acres even of oats to produce as much human food as one acre ...
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... portions of encumbered estates as would free the rest from debt , and the development of Ireland's agricultural resources , by means of an industrial conquest unstained by force or fraud . But if the present policy be persisted in , it ...
... portions of encumbered estates as would free the rest from debt , and the development of Ireland's agricultural resources , by means of an industrial conquest unstained by force or fraud . But if the present policy be persisted in , it ...
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actual already amount appears authority become believe body called capital carried cause character Christian colonies common compared consequence considered constitution course direct doubt duty effect emigration England error established Europe existence fact feeling force France German give given Greek hand human important increase influence interest Ireland Italy king labour Lamartine land least less London Lord matter means measure ment mind mines moral nature necessary never object observations once operation opinion party passed perhaps period persons political population portion position practical present principle probably produce proportion question reason received regards relations representatives respect seems success supply taken things thought tion true truth whole
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532 psl. - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
366 psl. - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
366 psl. - But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.
7 psl. - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
422 psl. - We are what suns and winds and waters make us The mountains are our sponsors, and the rills Fashion and win their nursling with their smiles. But where the land is dim from tyranny, There tiny pleasures occupy the place Of glories and of duties ; as the feet Of fabled faeries when the sun goes down Trip o'er the grass where wrestlers strove by day. Then Justice...
588 psl. - Of the world's ransom, blessed Mary's Son : This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land, Dear for her reputation through the world, Is now leas'd out I die pronouncing it Like to a tenement or pelting farm.
334 psl. - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
370 psl. - But when wit is combined with sense and information, when it is softened by benevolence and restrained by strong principle, when it is in the hands of a man who can use it and despise it, who can be witty, and something much better than witty, who loves honour, justice, decency, good nature, morality, and religion ten thousand times better than wit, wit is then a beautiful and delightful part of our nature.
167 psl. - ... of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation.
370 psl. - I have talked of the danger of wit; I do not mean by that to enter into common-place declamation against faculties because they are dangerous ; wit is dangerous, eloquence is dangerous, a talent for observation is dangerous, every thing is dangerous that has efficacy and vigour for its characteristics ; nothing is safe but mediocrity.