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... Ireland which forced forward Catholic emancipation . We had to choose between emancipation and rebel- lion . We took the former as the lesser evil of the two . We dressed it up in fine phrases , as if we regarded it as a tardy act of ...
... Ireland which forced forward Catholic emancipation . We had to choose between emancipation and rebel- lion . We took the former as the lesser evil of the two . We dressed it up in fine phrases , as if we regarded it as a tardy act of ...
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... Ireland , it would perhaps be well to bury the recollection of it . There has been one common principle , however , which has governed English dealing with that unlucky island from the first . It has not been abandoned ; there is no ...
... Ireland , it would perhaps be well to bury the recollection of it . There has been one common principle , however , which has governed English dealing with that unlucky island from the first . It has not been abandoned ; there is no ...
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... Ireland into the general European sys- tem . Whether the effect has been to bring England and Ireland together , history can tell . As with religion so with social organization . The Irish were ruled by their own kings and chiefs , the ...
... Ireland into the general European sys- tem . Whether the effect has been to bring England and Ireland together , history can tell . As with religion so with social organization . The Irish were ruled by their own kings and chiefs , the ...
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... Ireland - that , and nothing else . Nor was this the worst . Ireland was not only to submit , but she was to seem to submit of her own will . The English princes did not like to act as despots . They were constitutional sovereigns , who ...
... Ireland - that , and nothing else . Nor was this the worst . Ireland was not only to submit , but she was to seem to submit of her own will . The English princes did not like to act as despots . They were constitutional sovereigns , who ...
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... Ireland was poor and miserable . The English ought to have shown that the English connection meant at least material prosperity . They deliberately determined , on the contrary , to keep Ireland poor and miserable as the readi- est ...
... Ireland was poor and miserable . The English ought to have shown that the English connection meant at least material prosperity . They deliberately determined , on the contrary , to keep Ireland poor and miserable as the readi- est ...
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