Oliver GoldsmithH. Jenkins, 1951 - 286 pages |
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Page 16
... Irish bishoprics in the eighteenth century were reserved for the alien English . Nor did any of them possess considerable estates . Nevertheless , their social level remained , on the whole , comfortably middle or upper - middle class ...
... Irish bishoprics in the eighteenth century were reserved for the alien English . Nor did any of them possess considerable estates . Nevertheless , their social level remained , on the whole , comfortably middle or upper - middle class ...
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... Irish clergy , those ranks to which the Goldsmith family contributed so many members during the eighteenth century ... Irish revenues were wholly at the disposal of the English Govern- ment , and were regarded as a convenient and ...
... Irish clergy , those ranks to which the Goldsmith family contributed so many members during the eighteenth century ... Irish revenues were wholly at the disposal of the English Govern- ment , and were regarded as a convenient and ...
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... Irish pension of £ 500 . So far as the Church was concerned , fresh complications , to say nothing of fresh sources of corruption , arose from the fact that so many Irish peers were absentees that the bishops formed more than half its ...
... Irish pension of £ 500 . So far as the Church was concerned , fresh complications , to say nothing of fresh sources of corruption , arose from the fact that so many Irish peers were absentees that the bishops formed more than half its ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
IRELAND | 15 |
SCOTLAND THE MEDICAL STUDENT | 51 |
Copyright | |
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