"Misgovern" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rebellious Celtic tribes. Then the king, seeing the impossibility of carrying out his scheme for pacifying the whole of Ireland, was reduced to the expedient of dividing the country into two; leaving the larger part of it for the natives and degenerate English to misgovern as they pleased according to their own customs, and preserving only a mere fraction (the "English Pale") in allegiance to the Crown of England. This was the real meaning of the "Statutes of Kilkenny," which have been so often ...
— Is Ulster Right? • Anonymous
... that sad stop, my lord, Where rude misgovern'd hands, from window tops, Threw dust and rubbish on ...
— Characters of Shakespeare's Plays • William Hazlitt
... Government, I have not the least idea in any observations which I may make either in this House or elsewhere of bringing a charge against the East India Company—that is to say, against any individual member of the Board of Directors, as if they were anxious to misgovern India. I never had any such suspicion. I believe that the twenty-four gentlemen who constitute the Board of Directors would act just about as well as any other twenty-four persons elected by the same process, ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright |
