| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1862 - 620 pages
...View of the State of Ireland." He says : — " Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they come creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could...bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves, they did eat the dead carrions, and if they found a plot... | |
| James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 546 pages
...miles nor ever find a house standing ;' ' and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out...could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of CHAP vn death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; ,564 they did eat the dead carrions,... | |
| James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 510 pages
...miles nor ever find a house standing ;' ' and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out...came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs 1 Cecil to Sir N. Arnold, February 28.— Irish MSS. could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies... | |
| James Anthony Froude - Great Britain - 1863 - 508 pages
...miles nor ever find a bouse standing ;' ' and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out...came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs Cecil to Sir N. Arnold, February 1S.—Irish MSS. could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies... | |
| 1864 - 990 pages
...thirty miles, nor ever find a house standing ; and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness, that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy where they could... | |
| William Howitt - Abbeys - 1864 - 254 pages
...wretchednefs, as that any ftrong heart would rue the fame. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they fpoke like ghofts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions, happy when they could... | |
| Mark Hutton - Ireland - 1864 - 354 pages
...says (I remember well the words) : ' The Irish were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stonie heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth on their hands, for the legges would not bear them. They looked like... | |
| English essays - 1866 - 1004 pages
..."View of the State of Ireland during a Famine," " Out of every corner of the wods and glynnis they come creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could...them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spoke like ghosts crying out of their graves ; they did eat the dead carrions ; and if they found a... | |
| Maurice Lenihan - 1866 - 820 pages
...corne and cattle, yet ere one year and a hälfe they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony heart would have rued the same ; out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for then- legges could not bear them, they looked... | |
| John Ferguson McLennan - Ireland - 1867 - 502 pages
...plentifull countrey, . . . yet, ere one yeare and a halfe, they were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynnes they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legges could not beare them ; they looked... | |
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