 | Rebecca Solnit - History - 1997 - 206 pages
...brutal clarity: "Although there should none of them fall by the sword, nor be slain by the soldier . . . notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and cattle, that ye would have thought they could have been able to stand long, yet ere one-year-and-a-half they were... | |
 | David Power Conyngham - Martyrs - 2001 - 267 pages
...; "for although there should none of them fall by the sword, nor be slain by the soldier, yet land) was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn...thought they should have been able to stand long ; yet, in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stoney heart would have... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - History - 2002 - 628 pages
...and devour one another, The proof whereof I saw suflicienily ensampled in those late wars in Munster; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corn and caule, that you would have thought they would have heen ahle to stand long, yet ere one year and a... | |
 | Michael O'Clery - History - 2003 - 398 pages
...Spenser in his " View of Ireland," page 166, speaking of the effects of the war in Munster says, " For, notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...and cattle, that you would have thought they should hare been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness,... | |
 | Seumas MacManus - Health & Fitness - 2005 - 737 pages
...his "View of the State of Ireland" thus graphically pictures a little of what Elizabeth accomplished; "Notwithstanding that the same was a most rich and plentiful country, full of corne and cattel, yet, ere one yeare and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness as that any... | |
 | Merry E. Wiesner - History - 2006 - 522 pages
...another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently in those late wars in Munster [a province in Ireland]; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...corn and cattle, that you would have thought they could have been able to stand long, yet before one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness,... | |
 | Colin MacCabe - History - 2007 - 104 pages
...the bellicose Irish: The proof whereof I saw sufficiently ensampled in those late wars of Munster, for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness,... | |
 | Mormons - 1904 - 746 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in the 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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1844 - 598 pages
...and devour one another. The proof whereof I am sufficiently exampled in these late wars of Munster ; for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...thought they should have been able to stand long, yet in one year and a half they were brought to such wretchedness, as that any stony heart would have rued... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1865 - 736 pages
...starving-out process in Munster : — "The proof whereof I saw sufficiently exampled in those wars of Munster, for notwithstanding that the same was a most rich...corn and cattle, that you would have thought they would have been able to stand long, yet ere one year and a half, they were brought to such wretchedness... | |
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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... 
