 | John Curry - Catholic emancipation - 1810 - 732 pages
...wasted countries, than t« 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." The lord deputy and council,3 in a letter to the lords in England concerning their receiving the submissions... | |
 | Dennis Taaffe - Ireland - 1810 - 588 pages
...wasted countries, than to see mul. titudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all caloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." B. III. ci The effects of this artificial famine were severely felt even in the very city of Dublin,... | |
 | 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,...eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear that the famine created by lord Clivc and the English in India, was... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Stuart - Armagh (Northern Ireland) - 1819 - 692 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 eating nettles, docks and all tilings they could rend up above ground." Again Moryson states " that from O Kane's country, northward... | |
 | Mathew Carey - Ireland - 1823 - 534 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 eating nettles, docks, and all tilings they could rend up above ground."*" " The miseries which the wretched Irish endured, from the... | |
 | Hugh Clarke - 1823 - 88 pages
...spectacle is more frequent about Newry, and the ditches of other towns, where we see multitudes of the people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, aftd all things they could reach above ground." — Morrison, page viz. - ' " 1 have been credibly... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...towns, and especially in the wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people, the Irish, dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above the ground." No doubt English readers will receive the recital of such atrocities with distrust... | |
 | John Gamble - Dublin (Ireland) - 1826 - 374 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 up above ground." Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcasses, of which a horrid instance was witnessed... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1832 - 340 pages
...countries, than to see multitudes of those poor * Leland, vol. ii. p. 153. f Com. journals, vol. i. '/.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... | |
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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. 
