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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. "
Observations on the State of Ireland: Principally Directed to Its ... - Page 229
by John Christian Curwen - 1818
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An appeal to the commons and citizens of London. [Followed by] the preface ...

Charles Lucas - 1756 - 1078 pages
...the ditches of other towns, efpecially in wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up, above ground—" In a following chapter, p. 282, he adds " The Lord...
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An Historical and Critical Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland ..., Volume 1

John Curry - 1793 - 438 pages
...the ditches of towns, and efpecially in wafted countries, than to fee multitudes of thefe poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground." The lord deputy and council,' in a letter to the lords...
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History of the rebellion in Ireland in ... 1798. With an appendix

James Bentley Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...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. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human carcases,...
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History of the Rebellion in Ireland, in the Year 1798, &c: Containing an ...

James Gordon - 1803 - 512 pages
...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 ifp above ground. " Many to appease the rage of hunger devoured human...
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Memoirs of William Sampson: Including Particulars of His Adventures in ...

William Sampson - 1807 - 474 pages
...the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of those poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear, that the famine created by Lord Clive, and...
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An Historical Apology for the Irish Catholics

William Parnell - 1808 - 218 pages
...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 above ground." The very commanders, with some degree of inconsistency, had...
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An Impartial History of Ireland from the Period of the English ..., Volume 2

Dennis Taaffe - 1810 - 590 pages
...the ditchea 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 rould rend up above ground." B. III. ci The effects of this artificial famine were...
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Memoirs of William Sampson: Including Particulars of His Adventures in ...

William Sampson - 1817 - 452 pages
...the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of those poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green, by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend above ground." It would appear that the famine created by lord Clivc and...
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Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh

James Stuart - 1819 - 692 pages
...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...
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Vindiciae Hibernicae, Or, Ireland Vindicated: An Attempt to Develop and ...

Mathew Carey - 1823 - 534 pages
...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...
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