 | Alfred Young - Christian sociology - 1894 - 660 pages
...to these they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able to continue there withal, that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country is suddenly left void of man and beast." On the accession of James I. the system of confiscation recommenced... | |
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...to a feast for a time, yet not able long to continue there withal ; that in a short space there weio none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast ; yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1900 - 1020 pages
...watercresses or shamrocks there they flocked as to a feast for a time ; that in short space of time there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast."1 The old Irish annalists confirm the testimony of Spenser as to the desolation of the country.... | |
 | John O'Neill - American poetry - 1902 - 162 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that, in short space, there were none almost left,...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - World History - 1904 - 728 pages
...water-cresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time; yet not able long to continue therewithal, that in short space there were none almost...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure, in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine,... | |
 | John O'Neill - 1904 - 164 pages
...shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able long to continue there withal; that, in short space, there were none almost left,...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast; yet sure in all that war, there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine,... | |
 | Ireland - 1904 - 276 pages
...there they thronged as to a feast for the time: yet not able long to continue there withal: that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast: yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine.1... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1904 - 1072 pages
...there they thronged as to a feast for the time: jet not able long to continue there withal : that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most...plentiful country suddenly left void of man and beast : yet sure in all that war there perished not many by the sword, but all by the extremity of famine.1... | |
 | 1905 - 744 pages
...there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able to continue there long withal, so that in a short space there were none almost left, and a most populous and plentiful country was suddenly left void of man and beast." An eye-witness (Mooney) of those scenes of misery says that... | |
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... they could find them ; yea, and one another soon after, insomuch as the very carcasses they spared not to scrape out of their graves ; and if they found a plot of watercresses or shamrocks, there they flocked as to a feast for the time, yet not able... 
