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Books with author Charles John Andersson

  • The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, Volume 12

    Charles Anderson Dana

    Hardcover (Palala Press, )
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  • A general history of the pyrates

    Charles Johnson

    Paperback (Book on Demand Ltd., Feb. 7, 2017)
    A general history of the pyrates from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence, to the present time. With the remarkable actions and adventures of the two female pyrates Mary Read and Anne Bonny To which is added. This book, "A general history of the pyrates", by Charles Johnson, is a replication of a book originally published before 1724. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.
  • The Cabinet of Irish literature Volume 4 ; selections from the works of the chief poets, orators, and prose writers of Ireland with biographical sketches and literary notices

    Charles Anderson Read

    Paperback (RareBooksClub.com, March 3, 2012)
    This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...landlord to confiscate the improvements of his tenants in Ireland. All the improvements of the soil--certainly all the improvements made up to a very recent period--were effected by the tenants. Yet there was nothing to prevent an unscrupulous landlord from confiscating these improvements, and, in point of fact, it was done over and over again. Lord Clarendon, I think it was, who spoke of it in the other house as a legalized robbery. It was to that state of things that the Land Act was applied. I believe that any friend to the Irish tenant would act very wrongly indeed if he spoke of the author of that act in other terms than those of profound respect, knowing, as I do, the difficulties he had to contend with and the prejudices he had to meet. I give him every credit for that act. At the same time, I regret to say, it has failed, from a reason which I foresaw,--as you leave to the landlords the power of eviction. In the circumstances of Ireland no device that the legislature can make can prevent them from converting that tremendous power into an instrument to render themselves absolute despots over their tenants. Still the act established a principle. It first legalized the Ulster tenant right. Now, what is the meaning of that? As property which was only protected by custom, and to which the tenant had no legal claim whatever, except in justice and in honour, was converted into a legal property, that is a very great principle as applied to Irish land.' I will now detain the house a few minutes by referring to some incidents which, I confess, have had effect on my own mind in reference to the value of giving security to tenants. One of the incidents is an old one, as old as the days of Arthur Young, who certainly described in a striking way what was the bene...
  • The Cabinet of Irish literature Volume 4; selections from the works of the chief poets, orators, and prose writers of Ireland with biographical sketches and literary notices

    Charles Anderson Read

    Paperback (RareBooksClub.com, May 22, 2012)
    This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...Now no rights of property can give a man such dominion as that over his tenants, any more than property can give dominion over the thews and sinews of your servants. Now these evils can only be guarded against by taking away the arbitrary power of eviction, and allowing the tenant to hold his farm at a valued rent. The condition of every Irish estate was originally to give security of tenure. Your landlords have not done it. Your ancestors were placed there not to be lords over the people, but to settle and plant the country, and you are there still among the people whom you have neither conciliated nor subdued. There is not a laudlord in Ireland who holds land except on trust for creating upon it a contented tenantry. I go upon the great principles of jurisprudence, which will allow no right of property to stand in the way of a general good. I go upon the principles established by the Irish Laud Act, and I ask you, as you value the peace of Ireland, to carry those principles into full and beneficial effect. I will say nothing more about the peace of Ireland, or I shall be charged with making a stereotyped peroration. I have no official responsibility for the peace of Ireland, but I have the responsibility attaching to every man who takes ever so humble a part in public affairs, to promote peace and tranquillity. I have the anxiety which any man must feel who looks back on the ruin, desolation, and misery brought to many parts of Ireland by that civil war--for it was a civil war--which has raged between landlord and tenant since the days of the Cromwellian confiscations, and who regards with trembling the indications of a renewal of the war. I rejoice to say that those indications have at present come only from the landlords. I trust they will cease before ...
  • Middle Passage by Charles Johnson

    Charles Johnson

    Audio Cassette (Highbridge Audio, March 15, 1653)
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