| 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,...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... | |
| 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...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... | |
| James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green..."eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend up above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases, of which a horrid instance... | |
| James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 512 pages
...the ditches of " towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, with their mouths all coloured green...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could " rend ifp above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases, of which a horrid instance... | |
| James Gordon - Ireland - 1803 - 510 pages
...towns, and especially in wasted countries, " than to see multitudes of these poor people " dead, wilh their mouths all 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, of which a horrid instance... | |
| 1808 - 874 pages
...and especially in warred countries, lhan to see multitudes of those poor people dead, with th«?ir mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks,...ground.'' • It would appear, that the famine created '>y Lord Clive, and the English in India, was nothing so terrible as t.iis. It in curious to set how... | |
| William Parnell - Catholic emancipation - 1808 - 218 pages
...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,...docks, and all things they could rend above ground." The very commanders, with some degree of inconsistency, had to hang a parcel of old women, convicted... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 590 pages
...frequent in the ditchea 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 rould rend up above ground." B. III. ci The effects of this artificial famine were severely felt even... | |
| 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,...ground." It would appear that the famine created by lord Clivc and the English in India, was nothing so terrible as this. It is curious to see how the English... | |
| 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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