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COLLEGIANS 3VL (Ireland, from the Act of Union, 1800, to the death of Parnell, 1891)
COLLEGIANS 3VL - Ireland, from the Act of Union, 1800, to the death of Parnell, 1891 Author:Griffin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ster farmer. Indeed, the word is ill-adapted to convey to an English reader an idea of the class of persons whom it is intended to designate, for they were, and ... more »are, in mind and education, far superior to the persons who occupy that rank in most other countries. Opprobrious as the term " middleman" has been rendered in our own time, it is certain that the original formation of the sept was both natural and beneficial. When the country was deserted by its gentry, a general promotion of one grade took place among those who remained at home. The farmers became gentlemen, and the labourers became farmers, the former assuming, together with the station and influence, the quick and honourable spirit, the love of pleasure, and the feudal authority, which distinguished their aristocratic archetypes, while the humbler classes looked up to them for advice and assistance, with the same feeling of respect and of dependence which they had once entertained for the actual proprietors of the soil. The covetousness of landlords themselves, in selling leases to the highest bidder, without any inquiry into his character or fortune, first tended to throw imputations on this respectable and useful body of men, which, in progress of time, swelled into a popular ontcry, and ended in an Act of the legislature for their gradual extirpation. There are few now in that class as prosperous, many as intelligent and high- principled, as Mr. Daly. CHAPTER V. HOW KYRLE DALY RODE OUT TO WOO, AND HOW LOWRY LOOBY TOLD HIM SOME STORIES ON THE WAY. Kyrle Daly had even better grounds than he was willing to insist upon for doubting his success with Anne Chute. He had been introduced to her for the first time, in the course of the preceding spring, at an assize ball, and thought her, with justice, the finest ...« less
ISBN-13: 9780824034771 ISBN-10: 0824034775 Publication Date: 9/1/1980 Pages:1,014 Edition:Facsimile of 1829 ed Rating: