...Johnson said (" bursting forth with a generous indignation ") : " The Irish 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. King William was not their lawful sovereign : he had not been *acknowledged...

...occupation and put under the heel of the Anglo -Scottish minority, the Tory Dr Johnson remarks : " There is no instance even in the ten persecutions...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics " ; the Whig Burke writes : " All the penal laws of that unparalleled code of oppression were manifestly...

...occasion. For instance, looking back over the past, he once remarked : " The Irish are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over...that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised over the Catholics. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board: to punish them...

...and they will not wonder at his celebrated declaration : — " Sir, the Irish are a most unnatural State, for we see there the minority prevailing over...There is no instance even in the ten persecutions as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we...

...and they will not wonder at his celebrated declaration : — " Sir, the Irish are a most unnatural State, for we see there the minority prevailing over...There is no instance even in the ten persecutions as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholics. Did we tell them we...

...said, as stated in Boswell's Life (p. 29) : "The Irish are in a most unnatural state, for we there see the minority prevailing over the majority. There is...instance even in the Ten Persecutions of such severity." During the eighteenth century, besides enduring legal slavery, the Irish suffered from perpetual famine...

...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." 1 Like good wine the Penal code improved with age. It was only in...

...sell ? " JOHNSON. (bursting forth with a generous indignation,) " The Irish are in a most unnatural state ; for we see there the minority prevailing over...even in the ten persecutions, of such severity as 1 Prayers and Meditations, p. 40. that which the protestants of Ireland have exercised against the...

...Savage, 1744] I love him.' " About Ireland, Boswell records Johnson: " 'There is no instance, even in ten persecutions, of such severity as that which the...Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholicks. Did we tell them we have conquered them, it would be above board: to punish them by confiscation...

...by iniquity." Three years later he made roughly the same point. "The Irish are in a most unnatural state; for we see there the minority prevailing over the majority. There is no instance ... of such severity as that which the Protestants of Ireland have exercised against the Catholicks....