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" Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that you would' have thought they should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that... "
Some traditionall memorialls on the reign of Queene Elizabeth [by Francis ... - Page 115
by Walter Scott - 1811
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Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 458 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

Edmund Spenser - Ireland - 1890 - 462 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...corn and cattle, that you would have thought they L should have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half V\ (K they were brought to such...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 7

John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 624 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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English Men of Letters: Chaucer, by Adolphus William Ward, 1896; Spenser, by ...

1895 - 610 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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The Rock of Arranmore: A Narrative Dramatic Poem in Three Scenes with ...

John O'Neill - American poetry - 1902 - 164 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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The rock of Arranmore, a dramatic poem

John O'Neill - 1904 - 164 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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Gaodhal, Volume 23

Ireland - 1904 - 276 pages
...unconcealed admiration the success with which that policy had been pursued "in these late wars of Munster." For, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able to 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....
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 55

English periodicals - 1904 - 1072 pages
...these late wars of Munster.' For, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful cauntry, full of corn and cattle, that you would have thought...have been able to 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....
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AN ENGLISH PROSE MISCELLANY

JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...devour one another. The proof whereof, I saw sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...have been able 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...
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Bantry, Berehaven and the O'Sullivan Sept

Timothy Daniel Sullivan - Ireland - 1908 - 120 pages
...cannot read them without a shudder. I quote but one specimen, and omit the most revolting part of it:— Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, yet, ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would rue...
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