 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1819 - 536 pages
...none of them fall by the sword, nor bee slain by the souldiour ; yet thus being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quietly consume themselves, anddevoure one another; the proofe whereof I saw sufficiently in these... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 pages
...none of them fall by the sword; nor bee slain by the souldiour: yet thus beinc kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint, they would quietly consume themselves, and devoure one another ; U\c. proofe whereof I saw sufficiently in these... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...Sidney. .Although there should none of them [fall by the sword, yet they being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly devour one another. Spenser on Ireland. The manurement of wits is like that of soils, where, before... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...renewal of the like inhuman proceedmgs, he uses these words : — " Being thus kept from manurance and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint, they would quietly consume themselves and devour one another ; the proof whereof I saw sufficiently in those late... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...none of them fall by the sword,nor be slaine ' by the soldiour : yet thus being kept from man' urance, and their cattle from running abroad, by ' this hard restraint THEY WOULD QUIETLY CON' SUME THEMSELVES, AND DEVOURE ONE ANOTHER !' — Spencer's Ireland, p. 165. These counsels... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...should none of them fall by the sword, nor be slain by the eoldiour, yet thus being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint, they would quiet/y consume themselves and devoure one another." The savage deputy acted upon the savage poet's... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...none of them fall by the sword, nor be slaine by the souldiours, yet thus being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard...quickly consume themselves and devoure one another."! And so " in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentifull countrey... | |
 | Thomas MacNevin - Dungannon volunteer meetings - 1845 - 260 pages
...none of them fall by the sworde, nor be slaine by the soldiour ; yet their being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard...restraint THEY WOULD QUICKLY CONSUME THEMSELVES AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER." — Spenser's Ireland, p. 165. The result of the false and vicious morality which... | |
 | Michael John Brenan - Ireland - 1845 - 528 pages
...should none of them fall by the sword nor be slain by the soldier, yet their being kept from manurunce and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themsilvea and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently in the late warres of Munster."... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1848 - 570 pages
...approved of the system, and recommended its re-adoption, says, the wretches " being kept from manurance, and their cattle from running abroad by this hard restraint, they would quietly consume themselves and devour one another." 1 he consequence of this system, he says, was,... | |
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... yet thus being kept from manurance and their cattle from running abroad, by this hard restraint they would quickly consume themselves, and devour one another. 
