The Irish Race in the Past And the Present
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They pitted their native wit against a wonderfully devised legislation, and often came off the victors.
Suppose it were true, was it not natural that, under such a system of unrelaxing oppression and hatred toward them, their faces should be "vacant, timid, cunning, and unreflective, be- traying the crouching slave within ? " Could they give back a proud answer, when a proud look was an accusation of rebellion ? Are prudence, cunning, and just reserve, vacancy and want of reflection ? The man w...ho penned those words should remember the choice of alternatives ever present to the mind of an Irishman, however unjustly suspected or accused — the probability of imprisonment or hanging, of being sent to the workhouse or transported to the " American plantations." The Irishman must have changed very materially and very rapidly since Mr. Godkin wrote. The features he would stamp upon him might be better applied to the Sussex yokel or the English country boor of whatever county. The generality of travellers strangely disagree with Mr.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They pitted their native wit against a wonderfully devised legislation, and often came off the victors.
Suppose it were true, was it not natural that, under such a system of unrelaxing oppression and hatred toward them, their faces should be "vacant, timid, cunning, and unreflective, be- traying the crouching slave within ? " Could they give back a proud answer, when a proud look was an accusation of rebellion ? Are prudence, cunning, and just reserve, vacancy and want of reflection ? The man w...ho penned those words should remember the choice of alternatives ever present to the mind of an Irishman, however unjustly suspected or accused — the probability of imprisonment or hanging, of being sent to the workhouse or transported to the " American plantations." The Irishman must have changed very materially and very rapidly since Mr. Godkin wrote. The features he would stamp upon him might be better applied to the Sussex yokel or the English country boor of whatever county. The generality of travellers strangely disagree with Mr.
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