This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.

Thomas Davis

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Ireland

Author

Thomas Davis

Source

Literary and Historical Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1846 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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Ireland Europe

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Citation

Davis, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1879, pt. 3.

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It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Injustice Adversity

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Thomas Carlyle
Source
Chartism
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.