 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 676 sider
...extravagant price, otherwise the farmer cannot pay his rent. poor wretches, who think themselves blest, if they can obtain a hut worse than the 'squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoe plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 686 sider
...own hands for sheep pasture, and there are thousands of poor wretches, who think themselves blest, if they can obtain a hut worse than the 'squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoe plantation, on condition of being as Tery slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 540 sider
...his rent. The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own hands for sheep-pasture ; and there are thousands of poor wretches who think themselves...the squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoe-plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable,... | |
 | 1834 - 784 sider
...Irish landlord could read without blushing for human nature : " There are thousands of poor creatures who think themselves blessed if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kennel, and a piece of ground for potatoe plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America, starving... | |
 | 842 sider
...most eloquently described her miserable people in his day : — " There are thousands," says he, " who think themselves blessed if they can obtain a...the squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potato-plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America." Thus conditioned, the dread... | |
 | Francis Mahony - 1836 - 696 sider
...landlord could read without blushing for human nature : — " There are thousands of poor creatures who think themselves blessed if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kennel, and a piece of ground' for potato-plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America, starving... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1844 - 524 sider
...The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own banda for sheep-pasture; and there aro thousands of poor wretches who think themselves blessed, if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kenncl, and an acre of ground for a potatoc-plantation, on condition of being as very slaves us... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 546 sider
...thus delineated by one of its most generous advocates : — ' There are thousands,' says dean Swift, ' who think themselves blessed, if they can obtain a...dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potato plantation, on the condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable, than to see... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 sider
...land were kept in pasture, while there were " thousands of poor wretches who think themselves happy if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dogkennel, and an acre of ground for a potato-plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 sider
...his rent. The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own nanda for sheep-pasture ; and there are thousands of poor wretches who think themselves...dogkennel, and an acre of ground for a potato plantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable than to behold... | |
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The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own hands for sheep-pasture; and there are thousands of poor wretches who think themselves blessed, if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoplantation,... 
