 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 strani
...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 - 1801 - 442 strani
...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 - 1812 - 352 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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,... | |
 | 1832 - 344 strani
...industry ; £4,000,000 of absentee rent ; £2,000,000 Invested in the funds ; more than £5,000,000 of taxes ; £000,000 for tithes, if we consider the...unremitting, harsh, and without sympathy for their tenants." rt The Irish landlord," says the Quarterly Review, November, 1831, "is not even restrained \>y the... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 strani
...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... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 strani
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 588 strani
...shamefully rack their tenants." " Dean Swift speaks of the landlords of his time, as " squeezing their rents out of the very blood and vitals, and clothes and dwellings of their tenants, who lived worse than English beggars." ° Archbishop Boulter speaks to the same effect.... | |
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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. 
