 | 1844 - 858 pages
...decorum. In Ireland, no one appears to feel offended or surprised at the sight of a naked elbow or a bare leg. There is something quite peculiar in Irish...edges of the coat are formed into a sort of fringe, and often it is quite impossible to distinguish the inside from the outside of a coat, or the sleeves... | |
 | 1844 - 600 pages
...human hody, no rags are elsewhere to he seen. At the elhows and at all tho other corners of the hody the clothes hang like the drooping petals of a faded...edges of the coat are formed into a sort of fringe, and often it is quite impossihle to distinguish the inside from the outside of a coat, or tho sleeves... | |
 | 1861 - 354 pages
...together. * " „ * No rigs so completely worn away, so completely reduced to dust upon a human body, are elsewhere to be seen — at the elbows, and at all the the other corners of the body the clothes hang like the drooping petals of a faded ri4se." (Beautiful... | |
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... wear a coat of a coarse texture, but to go about in rags is nowhere allowed but in Ireland, except to those whom the extreme of misery has plunged so deeply into despair, that they lose all thought of decorum. In Ireland, no one appears to feel offended... 