 | Charles Lucas - Ireland - 1756 - 1078 pages
...this war, is really fhocking ! — " Notwithftanding, [he relates p. 158.] that it was a rich and a plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet ere one year and a half, they were brought to fuch wretchednefs, as that any (tony heart would rue the fame — Out of every corner of the woods,... | |
 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...calamities brought on the people of Munster by this war, is really shocking. " Notwithstanding," says he, " that the same was a most rich, and plentiful country,...full of corn and cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, as that anv stony heart would rue the same. Out of... | |
 | John Curry - 1810 - 736 pages
...calamities brought on the people of Muntter by this war, is really shocking. " Notwithstanding," says he, " that the same was a most rich, and plentiful country,...full of corn and cattle.— Yet, ere one year and a-half, they were brought to such wretchedness, a* that any stony heart would rue the same. Out of... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1811 - 498 pages
...occasioned : " The proofs wheraf I saw sufficiently exampled in these late warres of mounsters, for notwithstanding, that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they should have been able to stand long ; yet, ere one year and a halfe,... | |
 | John Lawless - Ireland - 1823 - 362 pages
...of the wretched scene which he describes. " Notwithstanding that the province of Munster was a most plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet ere...they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any heart would rue the same ; out of every corner of the woods and glens, they came creeping forth upon... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...destructive warfare, " 1 saw sufficiently exampled in these late FAMINE. 57 wars of M mister ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they should have been able to stand long ; yet, ere one year and a half,... | |
 | 1824 - 624 pages
...English court. Scarcely, however, had Kildare returned home and resumed the deputyship of withstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and caule, (.Munster more particularly is here spoken of,) yet in one year and a half (during the war carried... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Absentee landlordism - 1825 - 200 pages
...state of the country in which they were by law obliged to live, is thus described by Spenser ; — " Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, (Munster more particularly is here speken of,) yet in one year and a half (during the war carried on... | |
 | William Joseph Battersby - Absentee landlordism - 1833 - 388 pages
...absentees of England, unless as far as the fines went to the king. " Notwithstanding," says Spenser, " that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet in one year and a half, (during the war carried on against the earl of Desmond, for the purpose of... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Ireland - 1833 - 398 pages
...themselves and devour one another ; the proof whereof I saw sufficiently in those late wars of Munster : for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long ; yet in one year and a half they... | |
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Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that... 
