 | Charles Lucas - Ireland - 1756 - 1078 pages
...efpecially in wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up, above ground—" In a following chapter, p. 282, he adds " The Lord Deputy and council in a letter to the Queen, have... | |
 | John Curry - Ireland - 1793 - 438 pages
...wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." The lord deputy and council,' in a letter to the lords in England concerning their receiving the fubmiffions of fome Irifh... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1801 - 428 pages
..." countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe poor " people dead, with their mouths all coloured c' green by eating nettles, docks, and all things " they could rend up above ground." Many to apptafe the rage of hunger devoured human carcafes, of which a horrid inftance was witneffed... | |
 | James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...mournful matter for many pages. " No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green by , "eating nettles,... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...mournful matter for many pages. " No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, wilh their mouths all coloured green by " eating nettles,... | |
 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...mournful matter for many pages. " NVspectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green by " eating nettles,... | |
 | William Parnell - Catholic emancipation - 1808 - 218 pages
...them. i2 altogether became admirers of the crown of England." " No spectacle, (says Morrison,) was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles,... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...apprehended the old women, who were executed for the fact. No spectacle," adds Morrisson, " was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in...colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things ther could rend up above ground." The lord deputy and council,3 in a letter to the lords in England... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...there. upon, to be ready to tear out one another's throat for a share of them. And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see mul. titudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all caloured green by eating nettles,... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 pages
...thereupon, to be ready to tear ontone anothers throats for a share of them , and no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns .and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their months all coloured green by eating nettles,... | |
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And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. 
