 | Cardinal Adolphe Louis Albert Perraud, Adolphe Perraud - Ireland - 1862 - 568 pages
...169.) 1 Réimprime5 en 1847 avec l'opuseule précédemment ci té de Swift. 1 « Whether, if thcre was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high. round this kingdom, our natives might npt nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it? » (Quer.... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1869 - 316 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ?" — " Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?" — "Whether a foreigner could imagine that one-half of the people were starving, in a country which... | |
 | Ireland - 1869 - 608 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home ?" — •' Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?" — "Whether a foreigner could imagine that one-half of the people were starving, in a country which... | |
 | Ireland - 1869 - 590 pages
...clo without foreign trade, and what would follow on such a supposition ?" " Whether, if there were a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it ?" Such queries as these, though very cautiously expressed, showed plainly enough that the excellentbishopattributed... | |
 | Albert Kimsey Owen - Finance - 1880 - 146 pages
...consideration." " 134 is the celebrated query : Whether if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high, our natives might not, nevertheless, live cleanly...and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits thereof? "114. Whether a nation might not have, within itself, real wealth sufficient to give its inhabitants... | |
 | William Anderson O'Conor - 1881 - 334 pages
...nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may more easily be supplied from home ? Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless (he meant therefore) live cleanly and comfortably, till the land and reap the fruits of it ? Book IV.... | |
 | William Dillon - Economics - 1882 - 278 pages
...life in the country, and whether the neighbourhood around him be not observed to thrive ? Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it?— BERKELEY :— The Querist. UPON the subject of Free Trade the leading Economists of the English school... | |
 | 1882 - 722 pages
...branches of trade than to fold our hands and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ?" and " Whether if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it ?" But it is also plainly indicated in the Querist that the treatment which the wool had received destroyed... | |
 | 1882 - 120 pages
...branches of trade than to fold our hands and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ?" and " Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high...comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it ?" But it is also plainly indicated in the Querist that the treatment which the wool had received destroyed... | |
 | John Hely- Hutchinson - 1882 - 452 pages
...asked* whether the natives might not be able to effect their own prosperity and elevation, even though " there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom ?" Lord Clare, in his Union speech, declared that Ireland made more progress in her eighteen years... | |
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Whether, if there was a wall of brass a thousand cubits high round this kingdom, our natives might not nevertheless live cleanly and comfortably, till the land, and reap the fruits of it... 
