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... feet square , equal to 190 or 200 miles , so that even such very restricted areas as Scotland or Ireland would be beyond the limits of any high degree of accuracy . Larger areas , such 64 CHAP . STUDIES , SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL.
... feet square , equal to 190 or 200 miles , so that even such very restricted areas as Scotland or Ireland would be beyond the limits of any high degree of accuracy . Larger areas , such 64 CHAP . STUDIES , SCIENTIFIC AND SOCIAL.
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... Ireland- we find that still more remarkable and still more dis- tressing events have occurred . There the population has decreased half a million since 1870 , and during the same period the emigrants have amounted to 883,000 , so that ...
... Ireland- we find that still more remarkable and still more dis- tressing events have occurred . There the population has decreased half a million since 1870 , and during the same period the emigrants have amounted to 883,000 , so that ...
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... Ireland , and a population very much poorer than it was , and that necessarily results in a depression of trade , because we supply Ireland with most of the manufactures she con- sumes . Causes of Rural Depopulation . It is , however ...
... Ireland , and a population very much poorer than it was , and that necessarily results in a depression of trade , because we supply Ireland with most of the manufactures she con- sumes . Causes of Rural Depopulation . It is , however ...
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... Ireland permission to manage her own affairs . It may , therefore , be worth while to consider whether there is not a method by which a House of Lords may be retained in such a form as to render it a truly representative Upper Chamber ...
... Ireland permission to manage her own affairs . It may , therefore , be worth while to consider whether there is not a method by which a House of Lords may be retained in such a form as to render it a truly representative Upper Chamber ...
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... Ireland ) as being quite inadmissible , since it would perpetuate many of the evils to obviate which reform or abolition is demanded . The election must be a popular one , and the most obvious suggestion is that the existing ...
... Ireland ) as being quite inadmissible , since it would perpetuate many of the evils to obviate which reform or abolition is demanded . The election must be a popular one , and the most obvious suggestion is that the existing ...
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Page 453 - The land shall not be sold for ever; for the land is mine, for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Page 455 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 452 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 454 - And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 368 - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. 9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 434 - They are clothed in velvet and warm in their furs and their ermines, while we are covered with rags. They have wine and spices and fair bread; and we oat-cake and straw, and water to drink. They have leisure and fine houses; we have pain and labour, the rain and the wind in the fields. And yet it is of us and of our toil that these men hold their state.
Page 322 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 435 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they can find out; first, that they may, without danger, preserve all that they have so ill acquired, and then that they may engage the poor to toil and labor for them at as low rates as possible, and oppress them as much as they...
Page 343 - has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other...
Page 342 - And as before so here, we see that, ethically considered, this law implies that each individual ought to receive the benefits and the evils of his own nature and consequent conduct : neither being prevented from having whatever good his actions normally bring to him, nor allowed to shoulder off on to other persons whatever ill is brought to him by his actions.