... been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster... The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 97by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Wenman Seward - Ireland - 1803 - 460 pages
...fatisfied with the prefent extortion, fome landlords have been fo bafe to inftigate the in (argents to rob the clergy of their tithes, not in order to alleviate the diftrefles of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's {hare to the cruel rack-rents already... | |
| 1820 - 646 pages
...landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...Clergy of their tithes ; not in order to alleviate the disiresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the Clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents they... | |
| 1804 - 400 pages
...landlord grasped the whole, and sorry was he to add that not satisfied with the present extortions, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob- the clergy of their tythes, not in order to alleviate the distresses of the tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 500 pages
...landlord grasped the whole, and sorry was he to add, that not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rackrents already paid. It would require the utmost ability of parliament to come to the root of those evils.... | |
| Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 502 pages
...already paid. It would require the utmost ability of parliament to (Tome to the root of those evils. The poor people of Munster lived in a more abject state of poverty than human nature could be supposed able to bear l their miseries were intolerable, but they did not originate with the... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...whole ; and sorry I am to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortions, some landlords have been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid." ' In such a country, they,' said Mr. Moore, ' who looked round where to sow the crop... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - 1811 - 590 pages
...the whole; and sorry I am to add, that, not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords have been so base, as to instigate the insurgents to rob...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid. I fear it will require the utmost ability of parliament to come to the root of those... | |
| Henry Grattan - Ireland - 1813 - 540 pages
...landlord grasped the whole: and sorry was he to add, that not satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so base as to instigate the...might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack-rents already paid ; the poor people of Munster lived in a more abject itate of poverty than human nature... | |
| 1821 - 504 pages
...landlord grasped the whole ; and sorry was he to add, that, not ' satisfied with the present extortion, some landlords had been so ' base as to instigate...that they might add the clergy's share to the cruel rack' rents they already paid. The poor people of Munster lived in a 'more abject state of poverty... | |
| Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...satisfied with the present extortion, * Wake-field's Account of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 773. LANDLORDS. 341 some landlords had been so base as to instigate the insurgents to rob the clergy of their tithe, not in order to alleviate the distress of their tenantry, but that they might add the clergy's... | |
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