Father Mathew: A BiographyLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865 - 343 páginas |
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Página 112 - Glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth to men of good will...
Página 296 - It is but a merited tribute of respect to a man who has achieved a great social revolution — a revolution in which no blood has been shed ; a revolution which has involved no desolation, which has caused no bitter tears of widows and orphans to flow ; a revolution which has been achieved without violence, and a greater one, perhaps, than has ever been accomplished by any benefactor of mankind.
Página 17 - Poor in every thing but genius and philosophy, he had no property at stake, no family to fear for; but descending from the contemplation of wisdom, and abandoning the ornaments of fancy, he humanely undertook the task of conveying duty and instruction to the lowest class of the people. If I did not know him to be a Christian clergyman, I should suppose him, by his works, to be a philosopher of the Augustan age.
Página 230 - ... badly housed, badly fed, badly clothed, and badly paid for his labour. Our personal experience and observations during our inquiry have afforded us a melancholy confirmation of these statements; and we cannot forbear expressing our strong sense of the patient endurance which the labouring classes have generally exhibited under sufferings greater, we believe, than the people of any other country in Europe have to sustain.
Página 240 - The survivors were like walking skeletons — the men gaunt and haggard, stamped with the livid mark of hunger — the children crying with pain — the women in some of the cabins too weak to stand. When there before I had seen cows at almost every cabin, and there were besides many sheep and pigs owned in the village. But now all the sheep were gone — all the cows — all the poultry killed — only one pig left — the very dogs which had barked at me before had disappeared; no potatoes —...
Página 234 - I beheld, with sorrow, one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their decaying gardens, wringing their hands, aud wailing bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless.
Página 230 - A reference to the evidence of most of the witnesses will show that the agricultural labourer of Ireland continues to suffer the greatest privations and hardships — that he continues to depend upon casual and precarious employment for subsistence — that he is still badly housed, badly fed, badly clothed, and badly paid for his labour.
Página 330 - I sacrificed my health and little property in the glorious cause. The efforts of individuals, however zealous, were not equal to the mighty task. THE UNITED KINGDOM ALLIANCE strikes at the very root of the evil. I trust in God that the associated efforts of many good and benevolent men will effectually crush a monster gorged with human gore.
Página 93 - Father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, surely thou shouldst have done it ; how much rather what he now hath said to thee : Wash, and thou shalt be clean...
Página 317 - ... own beloved countrymen I most affectionately tender a few words of parting advice. You have, my dearly beloved friends, relinquished the land of your birth, endeared to you by a thousand fond reminiscences, to seek on these distant shores that remuneration for industry and toil too often denied you at home. You are presented. here with a boundless field of profitable employment, and every inducement is held out to persevering industry.