They have a national costume, their houses are habitable, their orchards are carefully tended, and their gaylyharnessed ponies are mostly in good condition. An Irishman has nothing national about him but his rags, his habitation is without a plan, his... Ireland: Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny Races, the ... - Page 25by Johann Georg Kohl - 1844 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
| Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...— their houses are habitable, — their orchards are carefully tended, and their gaily harnessed ponies are mostly in good condition. An Irishman has...without rule or law. We have beggars and paupers among MEMORANDA OF IRISH MATTERS. us, but they form, at least, an exception ; whereas, in Ireland, beggary,... | |
| 1900 - 1008 pages
...we call them poor and barbarous, but good heavens ! they look at least like human creatures. . . . An Irishman has nothing national about him but his...rule or law. We have beggars and paupers among us (in Germany), but they form at least an exception, whereas in Ireland, beggary or abject poverty is... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1848 - 962 pages
...costume, their houses arc habitable, their orchards arc carefully tended, and their gaily-harnessed ponies are mostly in good condition. An Irishman has...his rags, — his habitation is without a plan, his do",. mestio economy without rule or law. We have beggars and paupers among us, but ^, they form at... | |
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