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Ireland, John
Hogarth illustrated (Band 2,3): Nature — London, 1793

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gibbets, and other inquisitorial engines of torture,
which are admirably calculated for the propaga-
tion of a religion that was established in meekness
and mercy, and inculcates universal charity and
forbearance. On the same sledge is an image of
St. Anthony, very properly accompanied by his
pig, and the plan of a monastery to be built at
Black Friars.

In the back ground are a troop of soldiers, so
averse to this English expedition, that their Ser-
jeant is obliged to goad them forward with his
halberd. To intimate that agriculture suffers by
this invasion having engaged the masculine inha-
bitants, two women flowing a sterile promontory
in the distance, complete this catalogue of wretch-
edness, misery, and famine.
 
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