 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 lapas
...riches riches of Ireland, which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes,...the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a sign of wealth, is in us a proof of misery ; there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 lapas
...the riches of Ireland, which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes,...the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a sign of wealth, is in us a proof of misery; there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 352 lapas
...riches of Ireland, which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is sqeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and...the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a sign of wealth, is in us a. proof of misery; there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 378 lapas
...not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is sqeezed out of the very Mood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a sign of wealth, is in us a proof of misery ; there... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 lapas
...the riches of Ireland, which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes,...the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a sign of wealth, is in us a proof of misery ; there... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1828 - 496 lapas
...as it respects their oppressed tenantry, and not being the first to " squeeze their enormous rents out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of their tenants, who live worse than English beggars1." Another quotation this, of a century 1 Dean Swift,... | |
 | 1833 - 342 lapas
...under the composition \act, and make our estimate from the 1,200 parishes now under it ; £800,000, the rent of glebe and bishops' lands. — The tyranny...unremitting, harsh, and without sympathy for their tenants." " The Irish landlord," says the Quarterly Review, November, 1831, "is not even restrained by the check... | |
 | 1833 - 370 lapas
...Irish industry ; £4,000,000 of absentee rent; £2,000,000 invested in the funds; more than £6,000,000 of taxes ; £000,000 for tithes, if we consider the...unremitting, harsh, and without sympathy for their tenants." " The Irish landlord," says the Quarterly Review, November, 1831, "is not even restrained by the check... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 lapas
...the riches of Ireland which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes,...tenants, who live worse than English beggars."—' A short View of the State of Ireland,' Swift's Works, vol. vii., pp. 118, 119. " The prodigious number... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 lapas
...the riches of Ireland which is not a logical demonstration of its poverty. The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes,...tenants, who live worse than English beggars"—' A short View of the State of Ireland,' Swift's Works, vol. vii., pp. 118, 119. In his ' Character of... | |
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The rise of our rents is squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. 
