 | John Francis Maguire - Christian life - 1863 - 590 pages
...regarding this hunger as we should an epidemic ; looking upon starvation as a disease. In fuct, as we wont along, our wonder was not that the people died, but...which the Irish peasant has been trained, and by that lovelu, touching charity which prompts him to share his scantu meal ivith his starring neiyhlwur. .... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - Temperance - 1865 - 376 pages
...— When we entered a village, our first question was, how many deaths ? ' Tlit hunger is upon н*,' was everywhere the cry, and involuntarily we found...want in which the Irish peasant has been trained, «nil liy thai lovely, touching charity which prompts /rim to share his sennit/ meal with hie starving... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - Temperance - 1865 - 408 pages
...— When we entered a village, our first question was, how mauy deaths ? ' T/ie hunger is upon ?rs,' was everywhere the cry, and involuntarily we found...want in which the Irish peasant has been trained, fmd ly that lovely, touching charity which prompts him to share his scanty meal with hif starving neighbour.... | |
 | James Godkin - Ireland - 1870 - 510 pages
...wonder was, not that the people died, but that they lived ; and Mr. "WG Forster, in his report, said : 'I have no doubt whatever, that in any other country the mortality would have been far greater ; and that many lives have been prolonged, perhaps saved, by the long apprenticeship to want in which... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1882 - 130 pages
...— When we entered a village, our first question was, how many deaths ? ' The hunger is upon us,' was everywhere the cry, and involuntarily we found...been trained, and by that lovely, touching charity tc/1irA lu'oinpts him to sfmrc his scanty meal with his starving neighbour. From Burncourt, near Clogheen,... | |
 | Emily Lawless - Ireland - 1887 - 490 pages
...before had disappeared — no potatoes ; no oats." One more extract more piteous even than the rest : " As we went along our wonder was not that the people...apprenticeship to want in which the Irish peasant had been trained, and by that lovely touching charity which prompts him to share his scanty meal with... | |
 | Andrew Elmer Ford - Clinton (Mass.) - 1896 - 786 pages
..."As we went along, our wonder was not that the people died, but that they lived, and I have no doubt that in any other country the mortality would have...apprenticeship to want in which the Irish peasant had been trained, and by that lovely, touching charity which prompts him to share his scanty meal with... | |
 | Andrew Elmer Ford - Clinton (Mass.) - 1896 - 784 pages
..."As we went along, our wonder was not that the people died, but that they lived, and I have no doubt that in any other country the mortality would have...apprenticeship to want in which the Irish peasant had been trained, and by that lovely, touching charity which prompts him to share his scanty meal with... | |
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The hunger ia upon us,' was everywhere the cry, and involuntarily we found ourselves regarding this hunger as we should an epidemic ; looking upon starvation as a disease. In fact, as we went along, our wonder was not that the people died, but that they... 