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... Whig leaders of that day , but which Pitt 1 Lord Cornwallis seems to have tried , but the passions of the governing class and of his own subordinates prevailed against his intentions . INTRODUCTION xxiii may well have deemed ...
... Whig leaders of that day , but which Pitt 1 Lord Cornwallis seems to have tried , but the passions of the governing class and of his own subordinates prevailed against his intentions . INTRODUCTION xxiii may well have deemed ...
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... officials who surrounded them , and accepted the brutal remedies for disorder which those officials , following the old traditions , suggested to them . Nor , INTRODUCTION xxix when the turn of the Whigs came , xxviii INTRODUCTION.
... officials who surrounded them , and accepted the brutal remedies for disorder which those officials , following the old traditions , suggested to them . Nor , INTRODUCTION xxix when the turn of the Whigs came , xxviii INTRODUCTION.
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... Whigs came , did they cordially recognise the equality of rights and duties to which the Catholics had been admitted in 1829 , but sought to deal with them as if they were still an inferior class . Had England , even that unsympathetic ...
... Whigs came , did they cordially recognise the equality of rights and duties to which the Catholics had been admitted in 1829 , but sought to deal with them as if they were still an inferior class . Had England , even that unsympathetic ...
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... Whigs and Tories in England produced a reaction in Ireland . The High Churchmen - bishops and laymen - who had been most desirous of coercing the Catholics , and clamorous against the slightest symptom of leniency towards them , were ...
... Whigs and Tories in England produced a reaction in Ireland . The High Churchmen - bishops and laymen - who had been most desirous of coercing the Catholics , and clamorous against the slightest symptom of leniency towards them , were ...
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... Whigs or Tories in the larger island made little difference to the wretchedness of the smaller , or to the oppression inflicted on Catholics and Noncon- formists . Scarcely any considerable event 2 marks the period which elapsed between ...
... Whigs or Tories in the larger island made little difference to the wretchedness of the smaller , or to the oppression inflicted on Catholics and Noncon- formists . Scarcely any considerable event 2 marks the period which elapsed between ...
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