A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cottar dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect or anything tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his... Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift - Pagina 117door Jonathan Swift - 1899 - 269 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| 1812 - 576 pagina’s
...his will. A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order, which a servant, labourer or cotter, dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect, or any thing tending towards sauciness he may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1834 - 208 pagina’s
...speak no language but that of slavery. Disrespect, or any thing tending towards sauciness, a landlord may punish with his cane or his horsewhip, with the most perfect security; a poor man would have his hones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence. Knocking... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 496 pagina’s
...instances of a severe carriage to the poor, which is quite unknown in England." " A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer,...dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or anything tending towards sauciness, he may punish with his cane... | |
| Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1836 - 518 pagina’s
...instances of a severe carriage to the poor, which is quite unknown in England." " A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer,...dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or anything tending towards sauciness, he may punish with his cane... | |
| 1839 - 596 pagina’s
...invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cotter dares refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or anything tending...cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.' This is... | |
| 1839 - 588 pagina’s
...invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cotter dares refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him but unlimited submission. Disrespect, or anything tending...cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence.' This is... | |
| Philip Harwood - 1844 - 268 pagina’s
...liberty. • * * A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cotter, dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him...or his horsewhip, with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence. Knocking... | |
| Philip Harwood - 1844 - 268 pagina’s
...scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cotter, daree to refuse to execute. Kothing satisfies him but an unlimited submission. Disrespect,...or his horsewhip, with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered to lift his hand in his own defence. Knocking... | |
| Philip Harwood - 1848 - 264 pagina’s
...liberty. * * * A landlord in Ireland can scarcely invent an order which a servant, labourer, or cotter, dares to refuse to execute. Nothing satisfies him...towards sauciness, he may punish with his cane or hi* horsewhip, with the most perfect security. A poor man would have his bones broken if he offered... | |
| Robert Montgomery Martin - 1848 - 482 pagina’s
...speak no language but that of slavery. Disrespect, or anything tending towards saueiness, a landlord may punish with his cane or his horsewhip with the most perfect security ; a poor man would have his bones broken if lie offered to lift his hand in his own defence. Knocking... | |
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