Notwithstanding these great changes, the condition of the Irish peasantry remained the same; the tenure of land was unchanged, the modes of its occupation were unaltered, its possession was equally necessary and equally perilous.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage observes the unchanging plight of the Irish peasantry despite significant political reforms.
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They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.
But there is nothing in which the power of circumstances is more evident than in politics.
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