Letter to Thomas Spring Rice, Esq. M.P. &c: On the Establishment of a Legal Provision for the Irish Poor, and on the Nature and Destination of Church Property |
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... condition , and your anxious desire for that im- provement ; but above all , the patience , I should rather say the kindness with which you have , at all times , listened to my crude opinions , even when those opinions differed very ...
... condition , and your anxious desire for that im- provement ; but above all , the patience , I should rather say the kindness with which you have , at all times , listened to my crude opinions , even when those opinions differed very ...
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... condition , or think of returning to the woods from whence we came , because there are many profligates amongst us , neither should we reason or legislate for the lowest class in the state , as if they were all infected with an ...
... condition , or think of returning to the woods from whence we came , because there are many profligates amongst us , neither should we reason or legislate for the lowest class in the state , as if they were all infected with an ...
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... condition of the human race . He fears , good man ! that the fund of our sensibi- lities will be exhausted , and not considering him- self as bound to relieve the poor , except by calcu- lating the amount of good nature to be found in ...
... condition of the human race . He fears , good man ! that the fund of our sensibi- lities will be exhausted , and not considering him- self as bound to relieve the poor , except by calcu- lating the amount of good nature to be found in ...
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... condition . - But the naked truth is this , that the generality of those ( for there are many and honorable excep- tions ) who would supersede the wants of the poor , and refer the dying pauper to that manna , which public improvement ...
... condition . - But the naked truth is this , that the generality of those ( for there are many and honorable excep- tions ) who would supersede the wants of the poor , and refer the dying pauper to that manna , which public improvement ...
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... condition of all the Irish people is improved , than which nothing is more untrue . THE CONDITION OF NINETEEN TWENTIETHS OF THE IRISII PEOPLE IS NOT IMPROVED , BUT DETERI- ORATED . Lands are better tilled , the quality of agricultural ...
... condition of all the Irish people is improved , than which nothing is more untrue . THE CONDITION OF NINETEEN TWENTIETHS OF THE IRISII PEOPLE IS NOT IMPROVED , BUT DETERI- ORATED . Lands are better tilled , the quality of agricultural ...
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abuse Alcuin altar Apostles applied argument bishop burthen Calf canon capital charity Charlemagne Christian Church of Ireland Church Property civil clergy common law D. D. Patrick Decimas destination of Church destitute distress doctrine duty Ecclesiæ ecclesiastical Edward the Confessor effectually employment enforced England English system establishment existence expended extreme want faithful filial fund Gospel heaven human hunger improvement industry Ireland Irish poor justice legal provision letter lives luxury maintenance marriage ministers ministers of religion Missale Romanum Morocco nature never objection obligation orphan parish pauper pauperibus paying tithes payment of tithe period persons Pharisee piety Poor Law Poor Rate Pope population portion possession preservation priests princes produce productive labour quæ quod relief religion revenue rich Scotland society subsistence synod system of Poor Tertullian things THOMAS SPRING RICE tion tithe system transition truth wealth whilst whole widow zeal
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Page 90 - Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Page 87 - I do the tithe-system, and the whole Church Establishment in Ireland, I am actuated by no dislike to the respectable body of men who, in the midst of fear and hatred, gather its spoils ; on the contrary, I esteem those men, notwithstanding their past and perhaps still existing hostility to the religious and civil rights of their fellow-subjects and countrymen ; I even lament the painful position in which they are placed. What I aspire to is the freedom of the people ; what I most ardently desire...
Page 69 - Charge the rich of this world not to be high-minded, nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy...
Page 120 - There are many noble traits in the Irish character, mixed with failings which have always raised obstacles to their own well-being ; but an innate love of justice, and an indomitable hatred of oppression, is like a gem upon the front of our nation which no darkness can obscure. To this fine quality I trace their hatred of tithe — may it be as lasting as their love of justice...
Page 90 - Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place ; and they that serve the altar, partake with the altar?
Page 96 - Sic luceat lux vestra coram hominibus, ut videant opera vestra bona et glorificent patrem vestrum, qui in coelis est.
Page 78 - ... by all, save those who could enforce it for them ; that they daily die of want, whilst their expiring glance rests on the gorgeous, the ungodly display of ecclesiastical pride and pomp ; whilst their last sigh can scarcely fail to bring down a heavy curse on that wealth which was left for their support, but which so cruelly and so long has been wrested and withheld from them.
Page 105 - Unde statuimus ac decernimus, ut mos antiquus a fidelibus reparetur; et decimas ecclesiasticis famulantibus ceremoniis populus omnis inferat, quas sacerdotes aut in pauperum usum aut in captivorum redemptionem praeragantes, suis orationibus pacem populo aс salutem impetrent : si quis autem contumax nostris statutis saluberrimis fuerit, a membris ecclesiae omni tempore separetur.
Page 86 - but I am unacquainted with avarice, and I feel no worldly ambition. I am, perhaps, attached to my profession, but I love Christianity more than its earthly appendages. I am a Catholic from the fullest conviction, but few will accuse me of bigotry. I am an Irishman hating injustice and abhorring with my whole soul the oppression of my country ; but I desire to heal her sores, not to aggravate her sufferings.
Page 120 - The Irish people, since their first conversion to the Christian faith, always understood rightly the Gospel dispensation. They were always too rational, and too acute, to submit willingly to an unreasonable, I might add, an unjust imposition, and the law of tithe, whether civil or ecclesiastical, HAS NEVER HAD, EITHER IN CATHOLIC OR PROTESTANT TIMES, NO NOT TO THE PRESENT HOUR, THE ASSENT OR CONSENT OF THE IRISH NATION.