Nevertheless any attempt in later times to impair the authority of the Land Act of 1881 brought the fact instantly to light, that the tenant knew it to be the fundamental charter of his redemption from worse than Egyptian bondage.
Morley reflects on the significance of the Land Act of 1881 for Irish tenants, emphasizing its role in their liberation.
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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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