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Home Government for Ireland: Irish Federalism! Its Meaning, Its Objects, and ... - Page 100
by Isaac Butt - 1871 - 116 pages
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Essays and Lectures: Historical and Literary

James Whiteside - Great Britain - 1868 - 498 pages
...ever find a house standing ; and the miserable poor were brought to such wretchedness, that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like...
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Lectures on the History of Ireland: From A. D. 1534 to the date of the ...

Alexander George Richey - Ireland - 1870 - 508 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and one-half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like...
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Ierne: A Tale, Volume 1

William Stewart Trench - Land tenure - 1871 - 408 pages
...yet ere one yeare and a halfe they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchednesse as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves;...
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The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern: Derived from Our Native Annals ...

Martin Haverty - Ireland - 1872 - 794 pages
...ere one yeare and a halfe, they (the Irish) were brought to such wretchednesse^ as )tbat any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their leggei could not bear them : they looked like anatomies of death ; they spake like ghosts crying out...
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The comprehensive history of England, from the earliest period to ..., Volume 2

Charles MacFarlane - 1876 - 928 pages
...Elizabeth:— " Ere one year and a half, they [the natives] were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them; they looked like'...
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Life of Sir Walter Ralegh

Louise Creighton - Great Britain - 1877 - 304 pages
...corn and cattle, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glens they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs would not bear them. They looked like...
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The Illustrated Catholic Family Annual for ..., Volumes 11-14

1878 - 608 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner of the woods and glynns they came, creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked...
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The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the ...

John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 218 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves,...
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The Ulster Civil War of 1641: And Its Consequences; with the History of the ...

John McDonnell - Ireland - 1879 - 220 pages
...stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchednesse, as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...forth upon their hands, for their legges could not bear them; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of their graves,...
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Spenser

Richard William Church - Novelists, English - 1879 - 202 pages
...to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same. Out of every corner...they came creeping forth upon their hands, for their legs could not bear them ; they looked like anatomies of death, they spake like ghosts crying out of...
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