 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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars.  The Dublin Review - Page 127edited by - 1847Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a... | |
 | Michael Thomas Sadler - 1828 - 496 pages
...system, 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 pages
...Irish landlords is" almost incredible." " The rents," Dean Swift affirmed in his time, " are squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars." Mr. Bicheno remarks, that " there are many liberal... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...Irish landlords is almost incredible." " The rents," Dean Swift affirmed in his time, " are squeezed out of the very blood, and vitals, and clothes, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars." Mr. Bicheno remarks, that " there are many liberal... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars"—' A short View of the State of Ireland,' Swift's... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars."—' A short View of the State of Ireland,' Swift's... | |
 | 1840 - 588 pages
...most 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.... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 pages
...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, and dwellings of the tenants, who live worse than English beggars. The lowness of interest, in all other countries a... | |
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