 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 oldal
...White Horse, bk. 2. 3 Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, (1804-1881) British statesman, author. Hansard, col. 1016.... | |
 | John W. Wohlfarth - 2001 - 409 oldal
...church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an...and in addition the weakest executive in the world. Well, what then would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position?... | |
 | Norman Lebrecht - 2001 - 420 oldal
...Commons, 16. ii. 1844: 'Thus you have p.136, 1.35: a starving population, an absentee aristocracy and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. 1.36: That is the Irish Question. ' 1.42: p.132, 1.9: NYT, 1.iii.88, p. C25 1.21: Chicago magazine,... | |
 | David Paterson - 2001 - 276 oldal
...had accurately summarised the Irish Question as 'a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church and in addition the weakest executive in the world'. By this he was describing the system whereby the Irish were governed on a day-to-day basis by an English-dominated... | |
 | Gregory D. Woods - 2002 - 488 oldal
...Fenian: Criminal Process Under Pressure Thus you have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question. - Disraeli, 1844 In 1867-1868, the young Duke of Edinburgh took part in a royal... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - 2005 - 737 oldal
...church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an...and in addition the weakest executive in the world. Well, what then would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position ?... | |
 | 1886 - 964 oldal
...Church ; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they hav? a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, an...and in addition the weakest Executive in the world. He continued : — Well, what then would hon. gentlemen say, if they were reading of a country in that... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 578 oldal
...of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question. Well, then, what would honourable gentlemen say if they were reading of a country in that position... | |
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A dense population in extreme distress inhabit an island where there is an established Church which is not their Church ; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom live in a distant capital. Thus they have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy,... 
