 | Irish matters - 1844 - 98 pages
...had given birth to ruins; and beggars had begotten beggars for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for...was more hope, than for the Irish under the English! !" Such is the result of a comparison between the miseries of Ireland, and those of the most miserable... | |
 | Railway readings - 1847 - 172 pages
...had given rise to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars for a long series of generations. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for...Ireland ; and by so many links has the conquest been rivetted upon the native race, that it is too painful to contemplate even for a moment the only means... | |
 | 1852 - 464 pages
...had given birth to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars, for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for...domination, there was more hope than for the Irish under the English."—Kohl's Travel* in Ireland. The picture here given is from the pen of an accomplished German... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 380 pages
...had given birth to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars, for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for the poor Greeks under Turk ish domination, there was more hope than for the Irish under the English." Sad and dreary as is... | |
 | John Philip Sanderson - 1856 - 404 pages
...had given birth to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars, for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for the poor Greeks under Turk ish domination, there was more hope than for the Irish under the English." Sad and dreary as is... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1848 - 962 pages
...had given birth to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars, for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present a more cheering view. Even for...was more hope than for the Irish under the English." — Kohl's Travels in Ireland. The picture here given is from the pen of an accomplished German traveller,... | |
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It seems as if wretchedness had prevailed there from time immemorial — as if rags had succeeded rags, bog had formed over bog, ruins had given birth to ruins, and beggars had begotten beggars, for a long series of centuries. Nor does the future present... 