 I beheld, with sorrow, one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their decaying gardens, wringing their hands, and wailing bitterly the destruction that had left them foodless.  Quarterly Homeopathic Journal - Page 1061850Full view - About this book
 | 1848 - 628 pages
...1846, " On the 29th of last month, I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant (the potato) bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3d inst., I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the people were... | |
 | Charles Edward Trevelyan - 1848 - 240 pages
...a much more sweeping and decisive kind. "On the 2/th of last month (July), I passed," Father Mathew writes in a letter published in the Parliamentary...instant (August), I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people were seated on the fences of their decaying... | |
 | John Francis Maguire - 1863 - 590 pages
...are totally blighted, and the food of a whole nation has perished. On the 27th of last month I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd instant, I beheld, with sorrow, one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched people... | |
 | James Pink - 1879 - 168 pages
...but graphic words, the state of the country at this time. He says : ' On the 27th of July I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Eeturning on the 3rd of August I beheld one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 340 pages
...a much more sweeping and destructive character. On the 27th of July, wrote Father Mathew, 'I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd of August I beheld with sorrow one wild waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1888 - 636 pages
...unwholesome smell of the decaying potato-fields. "On the 27th of July," writes Father Matthew, "I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3d of August, I beheld with sorrow one wild waste of putrifying vegetation. Stupor and despair fell... | |
 | James Franck Bright - 1889 - 634 pages
...unwholesome smell of the decaying potato-fields. " On the 27th of July," writes Father Matthew, " I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3d of August, I beheld with sorrow one wild waste of putrifying vegetation. Stupor and despair fell... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1890 - 496 pages
...fell almost in an instant on the whole crop.4 " On the 27th of July," wrote Father Mathew, "I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the 3rd of August, I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation."5 From every province, from... | |
 | Frank J. Mathew - 1890 - 234 pages
...are totally blighted, and the food of a whole nation has perished. On the a/th of last month I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the I 3rd instant, I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. In many places the wretched... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - 1891 - 728 pages
...destroyed, almost to the last potato. ' On the 27th of last month ' (July), writes Father Mathew, ' I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed...instant (August), I beheld with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation." ' 1 Tkt Census fvr Inland for the Year 1851. Part V. 'Table of Death*,' vol.... | |
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