| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 600 pages
...soon have thought of appealing to the swine.1 At a later period Henry Flood excited the dominant class being little better than hewers of wood and drawers...any mischief, if they were ever so well inclined." In the Drapicr's Sixth Letter, written in 1724, he says : " As to the people of this kingdom, they... | |
| Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 pages
...to bring great numbers over to the Church ; and in the meantime, the common people without leaders, without discipline, or natural courage, being little...hewers of wood, and drawers of water », are out of ail capacity of doing any mischief , if they were ever so well inclined » ; ibid., p. 17. Dans le... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...they were "as inconsiderable as the, women and children," mere "hewers of wood and drawers of water," "out of all capacity of doing any mischief, if they were ever so well inclined." 3 Looking at them in this way, he felt a sincere compassion for their misery and a bitter resentment... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 pages
...without discipline, without natural courage, little better than hewers of wood and drawers of water, and out of all capacity of doing any mischief if they were ever so well inclined;' but yet the iron of the penal laws had entered into their souls, and they had always thrown themselves... | |
| Brendan Bradshaw, Peter Roberts - 2003 - 372 pages
...in all probability, will many more . . . and, in the mean time, the common people without leaders, without discipline, or natural courage, being little...Water, are out of all capacity of doing any mischief. Nevertheless the English government must not be complacent. If it continued to exclude Ireland from... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 848 pages
...The common people, without leaders, without discipline, or natural courage, being little tetter tban hewers of wood and drawers of water, are out of all...any mischief, if they were ever so well inclined." In the Drapier's Sixth Letter, written in 1724, he says : " As to the people of this kingdom, they... | |
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