 | William Sampson - 1832 - 364 pages
...countries, than to see multitudes of those poor * Leland, vol. ii, p. 153. f Com. Journals, vol.. i. people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear that the famine created by lord Clive and the English in India, was... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - Great Britain - 1839 - 568 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 by...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. These, and very many like lamentable effects, followed their rebellion, and no doubt the rebels had... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Great Britain - 1843 - 98 pages
...wasted countries, than to ' see multitudes of these poor people dead, with ' their mouths. all colored green by eating nettles ' docks, and all things they could rend up above ' ground.' Such were the means by which the final subjugation of Ireland was produced. Such were the preparations... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...the ditches of towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...and all things they could rend up above ground." In all this fiendish work, Sir George Carew, the author of Hibemia Pacata, was preeminently distinguished.... | |
 | John Mitchel - Ireland - 1845 - 266 pages
...frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially of wasted countries, than to see multitudes of the poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green,...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." It was this winter that Chichester and Sir Richard Moryson, returning from their expedition against... | |
 | James Adair Pilson - 1846 - 198 pages
...* And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, then to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." One syllable of comment upon the above would be preposterous. It is, in itself, a sufficiently horrifying... | |
 | Carlingford (Ireland) - 1846 - 310 pages
...says Moryson, 'was more frequent, especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of the people dead, with their mouths all coloured green...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.' It was in this winter that the English soldiers, returning from their expedition against Bryan Mac... | |
 | Robert King - Ireland - 1851 - 768 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 by...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.' " Again Moryson states ' that from O'Kane's coun- Desolation try northward of Tyrone, we have left... | |
 | Robert King - Ireland - 1851 - 740 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 by...docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." " Again Moryson states ' that from O'Kane's coun- Desolation try northward of Tyrone, we have left... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...in wasted counties, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all .colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." It seems too much to impute to England the deliberate design of exterminating a whole nation. But long... | |
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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. 
