| Robert Andrews - 1989 - Počet stránok 414
...(1709-1784) English author, lexicographer The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to ... act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots. Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman Like all Irishmen I suffer from agrophobia — fear... | |
| J. Bowyer Bell - 1987 - Počet stránok 384
...name of Ireland is mentioned the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots. —Sidney Smith, 1810 There are today many involved in the Ulster Troubles who agree. Worse than barbarity,... | |
| Helen Elizabeth Hatton - 1993 - Počet stránok 392
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots."'6 Irish Quakers responded to the select Committee's report with a pamphlet analyzing "the... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - Počet stránok 666
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the fatuity of idiots. SYDNEY SMITH, (1771-1845) British clergyman, writer. The Letters of Peter Plymley, no. 2(1807). 1 0... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - Počet stránok 686
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and onnie 10882 (ofMacaulay) He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. 10883 (ofMacauley)... | |
| Tim Pat Coogan - 2002 - Počet stránok 788
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem lo bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.10 Few fair-minded people familiar with the course of Irish history could disagree with his... | |
| A. N. Wilson - 2003 - Počet stránok 772
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots.'23 7 The Victorians in Italy Ireland drew forth the darkest, most pessimistic, and most repressive... | |
| Manus I. Midlarsky - 2005 - Počet stránok 492
...name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots."40 Germans and Jews in Poland The transition to a policy of ethnic cleansing of Poland's German... | |
| Donald G. Marshall - 2005 - Počet stránok 284
...Ireland's name was mentioned, "the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence, and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants, and the futility of idiots" (9-10). They know less of their sister island than they do of China. Emotionally... | |
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