Irish Land And Irish Liberty; a Study of the New Lords of the Soil
The book Irish Land And Irish Liberty; a Study of the New Lords of the Soil was written by author Mccarthy, Michael J. F. (Michael John Fitzgerald) Here you can read free online of Irish Land And Irish Liberty; a Study of the New Lords of the Soil book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Irish Land And Irish Liberty; a Study of the New Lords of the Soil a good or bad book?
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This class of youth so fears the world that he flies from it to find safety in the cloister, in the same way as the girls come to believe that life in the convent is the ideal life, the perfect and safe life for a Christian woman ; boys and girls, as a rule, having been educated by monks and nuns who have them- selves fled from the world. They have been favour- ably impressed by the order and regularity of convent life, as they saw it, and cannot avoid contrasting it with the struggles and diso...rder of home-life as they know it. The unhappy home-life of Roman Catholics ; the frequent quarrels between father and mother, between parent and child ; the disgust and discontent with life which the boy hears expressed on every side by elderly people in fits of temper : all these things go to confirm and intensify the fear implanted in the mind of the child in infancy. Other boys set before them the ideal of the parochial or secular priest, who has such unlimited power over souls and bodies ; of whom every one is afraid ; to whom ordinary men take off their hats, and 190 IRISH LAND AND IRISH LIBERTY women bend the knee in the streets.
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