Vivid pictures were drawn of a train of railway trucks two miles long, loaded with millions of bright sovereigns, all travelling from the pocket of the British son of toil to the pocket of the idle Irish landlord.
This vivid imagery illustrates the economic grievances felt by the British working class regarding Irish landlords.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
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