| Sir James Caldwell - Great Britain - 1766 - 430 pages
...themfelves in every learned and honourable Profeffion ; and, upon this Occafion, I cannot but obfervc, that there is fcarce one Native of this Country in...Stations merely by their Merit, having entered the Country under all the Difadvantages of Aliens, without Money, and without Friends. I flatter myfelf... | |
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1767 - 588 pages
...fpcaker of fome diltindion. Let me add, that, in my travels through many nations, during an abfencc of feven years from my country, I came into no kingdom where I did not find natives of Inland in every profeflion, and almoft in every art, who had been preferred to eminent ftations merely... | |
| Books - 1767 - 640 pages
...of fome diltiadion. Let me add, that, in my travels through many nations, during an abfencc of fevcn years from my country, I came into no kingdom where I did not lind natives of Ireland in every proteflion, and almoft in every art, who had been preferred to eminent... | |
| James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 518 pages
...soldier, he writes — " Let me add, that in my travels through many nations, during an absence of seven years from my country, I came into no kingdom where I did not find natives of Ireland in every profession, and almost in every art, who had been preferred to eminent stations merely by their merit,... | |
| James Roderick O'Flanagan - Judges - 1870 - 654 pages
...Gerard Hamilton. The reporter says, ' I have visited many nations, and during an absence of many years I came into no kingdom where I did not find natives of Ireland in Success of every station who were preferred to many situations merely upon their merits.' He declared... | |
| 1883 - 698 pages
...care to ask permission to " add, that, in my travels through many nations, during an absence of seven years from my country, I came into no kingdom where I did not find natives of Ireland, in every profession, and almost in every art, who had been preferred to eminent stations merely by their merit,... | |
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