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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. "
Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh - Page 302
by James Stuart - 1819 - 651 pages
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An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface ...

Charles Lucas - Ireland - 1756 - 1078 pages
...and in the ditches of other towns, 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...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland ..., Volume 1

John Curry - Ireland - 1786 - 448 pages
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland ..., Volume 1

John Curry - Ireland - 1793 - 438 pages
...frequent in the ditches of towns, and efpecially in 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...
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History of the rebellion in Ireland in ... 1798. With an appendix

James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...furnish mournful matter for many pages. " No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially...coloured green by , "eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend up above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases,...
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History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c: Containing an ...

James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...furnish mournful matter for many pages. " NVspectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more frequent in the ditches of " towns, and especially...coloured green by " eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend ifp above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases,...
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Memoirs of William Sampson: Including Particulars of His Adventures in ...

William Sampson - Europe - 1807 - 474 pages
...common in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of those poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear, that the famine created by Lord Clive, and the...
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An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics

William Parnell - Catholic emancipation - 1808 - 218 pages
...rid of them. i2 altogether became admirers of the crown of England." " No spectacle, (says Morrison,) was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially...coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." The very commanders, with some degree of inconsistency, had to...
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 2

Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...tear out one another's throat for a share of them. And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditchea of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than...all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they rould rend up above ground." B. III. ci The effects of this artificial famine were severely...
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Memoirs of William Sampson: Including Particulars of His Adventures in ...

William Sampson - Europe - 1817 - 452 pages
...common in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of those poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear that the famine created by lord Clivc and the...
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Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its ..., Volume 1

John Christian Curwen - Agricultural laborers - 1818 - 468 pages
...towns, especially in those of wasted countries, than to see multitudes of. these poor people lying dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and other things they could weed up above ground. Nothing can better illustrate the policy of James the...
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