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" ... day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, but eager for instruction ; and readily trained, under judicious management, to habits of order and steady industry. "
System of Universal Geography: Founded on the Works of Malte-Brun and Balbi ... - Page 298
by James Laurie - 1842 - 1063 pages
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A reference book to the incorporated railway companies of Ireland

Henry Glynn - 1847 - 110 pages
...Day ; yet the Peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great Exertion ; often exposed to great Privations ; ignorant, but eager for Instruction ; and readily trained, under ju licious Management, to Habits of Order and steady Industry. From this it is evident that so much...
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A dictionary, geographical, statistical, and historical ..., Volume 3; Volume 8

John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1866 - 636 pages
...per day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion, often exposed to great privations, ignorant, but eager for...and readily trained, under judicious management, to habit« of order and steady industry. The population of the midland and eastern districts does not...
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Memoir of Thomas Drummond, R.E.,F.R.A.S., Under Secretary to the Lord ...

John Ferguson McLennan - 1867 - 502 pages
...day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, but eager...districts does not differ materially in condition from those of the south ; but the inhabitants of the western district are decidedly inferior to both in...
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Thomas Drummond: Under-secretary in Ireland, 1835-40; Life and Letters

Richard Barry O'Brien - 1889 - 436 pages
...day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, but eager...districts does not differ materially in condition from those of the south ; but the inhabitants of the western district are decidedly inferior to both in...
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A Consideration of the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century

Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1907 - 720 pages
...day ; yet the peasantry are a robust, active, and athletic race, capable of great exertion ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, but eager...of the midland districts does not differ materially from those of the south ; but the inhabitants of the western districts are decidedly inferior to both...
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Journal of the Statistical Society of London, Volume 1

Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1839 - 578 pages
...and athletic race ; capable of great exertions ; often exposed to great privations ; ignorant, hot eager for instruction ; and readily trained under...habits of order and steady industry. The population ot' the midland districts resembles that of the south; but that of the western district is decidedly...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 6

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1848 - 628 pages
...speak of the population of the south of Ireland as "a robust, active race, capable of great exertion, ignorant, but eager for instruction, and readily trained...under judicious management to habits of order and industry."t Testimonials to the same effect might be multiplied from the voluminous correspondence...
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