| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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