...Catholics — and added, (4) To extirpate the Race. "There is no instance," says Dr. Samuel Johnson, "even in the Ten Persecutions, of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland exercised against the Catholics." l Like good wine the Penal code improved with age. It was only in...

...against the penal laws in Ireland is a case in point. " The Irish," he said, " are in a most unnatural state, for we see there the minority prevailing over...to punish them by confiscation and other penalties, as rebels, was monstrous injustice." When the corn-laws were in agitation in Ireland, by which that...

...neither of success nor of strength. " The Irish," said he, 150 years since, " are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over...exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we had conquered them, it would be above board." And then follow words recalling that, alone of all conquerors...

...sell ? " JOHNSON (bursting forth with a generous indignation). " The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." These are no more than selections from the evidence which the ten volumes of the biography afford in...

...in the history of persecution." Nor is Dr. Johnson less emphatic. "There is no instance," he says, " even in the Ten Persecutions, of such severity as...of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics." The ruin of the wool trade (ii., 209) is one of the strangest instances in all history of the deliberate...

...the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no such instance, even in the ten persecutions, as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we conquered them it would be above-board; to punish them by confiscations and other penalties was monstrous...