This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...Protestants were few, but so valiant and shrewd that if both sides were left to themselves they could have held thejr ground against the Catholics in the North-East. But they asked for English help, and, as the Catholics were helped by France, it was impossible for England to look on at the quarrel. After conquering ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...Protestants were few, but so valiant and shrewd that if both sides were left to themselves they could have held thejr ground against the Catholics in the North-East. But they asked for English help, and, as the Catholics were helped by France, it was impossible for England to look on at the quarrel. After conquering the three Catholic provinces, the English encouraged and authorized the Protestants to rule the whole island. To this end they allowed laws to be passed which outraged human affections, and could not be completely enforced in quiet times. To go on enacting laws of increasing severity is not governing, but fighting. To let laws remain on the statute book which'people are allowed generally to break is the way to weaken government. The existence of a Catholic and Protestant vendetta, and of popular antipathy to British law, can be, with fair proof, ascribed to the conduct of known persons, who lived between the year 1640 and 1700, or thereabouts. But there are other Irish phenomena to be accounted for, such as these: the trick of duelMISCHIEVOUS INFLUENCES. 295 ling, the trick of riding about the country and living at the expense of gentlefolks, the trick of genteel abduction or kidnapping of brides, the vagrant "mendicancy which was computed to amount to a tax of ten per cent, on a farmer's gains, neglect of sea-fishing and slovenliness in the repair of boats, reckless offers of payments for plots of land, extravagance in building country houses too big to be properly furnished or kept in repair. Setting ethnology aside, the student of political history would be satisfied with saying that whole sets of people, even nations, fall, like individuals, into tricks, and that tricks are the germs of mental derangement; that the modern invention of a...
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