 ... would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords,...  Quarterly Review - Page 5631828 - 590 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth - 1784 - 462 pages
...impojjibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common fujlenance, with neither houfe nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the mofl inevitable profpect of entailing the like, or greater miferies, upon their breed for ever. I profefs,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 314 pages
...prescribe, and thereBy have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 334 pages
...misfortunes, as they have nince gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the Impossibility of paying reut without money or trade, the want of common sustenance,...entailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed Jbr ever. I profess, in the "sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 508 pages
...prescribe, aud thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither bouse nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 598 pages
...prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility...like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
 | 1829 - 632 pages
...inhabitants of Ireland were reckoned only a million and a half, that " the wretchedness of the country, produced by the oppression of landlords; the impossibility...like or greater miseries upon their breed for ever ; was such as existed only in this one kingdom of Ireland, and in no other that ever was, is, or I... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 376 pages
...scene of misfortunes as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossihility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of...like or greater miseries upon their breed for ever ? I profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring... | |
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