| 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
...great part of the country was wasted, would furnish mournful matter for many pages. " No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more..."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 - 510 pages
...great part of the country was wasted, would furnish mournful matter for many pages. " No'spectacle," says Morrisson, in his history of Ireland, " was more...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... | |
| William Sampson - Europe - 1807 - 474 pages
...three thousand starved in Tyrone alone ! * Morrisson also says, " that no spectacle was more 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... | |
| 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...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." The very commanders, with some degree of inconsistency, had to hang a parcel of old... | |
| 1810 - 612 pages
...three thousand starved in Tyrone alone !f Morrisson also says, " that no spectacle was more 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 netles, docks, and all things... | |
| 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, and all things they could rend above ground.'' • It would appear, that the famine created '>y Lord Clive, and the English in India,... | |
| 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...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... | |
| Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...dying 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, docks,... | |
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