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" It would be impossible to describe adequately the privations which they and their families habitually and patiently endure. It will be seen in the evidence, that in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water ; that their cabins... "
The Dublin Review - Page 231
edited by - 1847
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The Churchman's Monthly Review and Chronicle

Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...would be itnpfj-tfihle to describe adequately the privations which they and their families libi'iually and patiently endure It will be seen in the evidence, that in maardutricts their only food is the potatoe, their only beverage water ; that fa?/c*bi"»*re seldom...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 18; Volume 82

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1845 - 788 pages
...of the commissioners are important. Speaking of cottiers and agricultural labourers, they say — ' It would be impossible to describe adequately the...families habitually and patiently endure. It will be seen from the evidence, that in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water...
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The Dublin university magazine

University magazine - 1845 - 772 pages
...the commissioners in thinking that the condition of the Irish labourer is most deplorable, and that " it would be impossible to describe adequately the privations which they and their families hahitually and patiently endure." We are far, however, from regarding that patience, and that passive...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 750 pages
...privations which tho cottiers and labourers and their families in most parts of the country endure ; that in many districts their only food is the potato,...seldom a protection against the weather; that a bed or blanket in a rare luxury ; aud that nearly in nil, their pig ind their manure heap constitute their...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1846 - 770 pages
...privations which the cottiers and labourers and their families in most part of the country endure ;" that " in many districts their only food is the potato,...a protection against the weather ; " that " a bed ora blanket is a rare luxury ; " and that " nearly in all, their pig and their manure heap constitute...
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The Churchman's Monthly Review and Chronicle

Christianity - 1846 - 1028 pages
...observation during our inquiry, have afforded us a melancholy confirmation of these statements." — " It will be seen in the evidence, that in many districts their only food is the potato, and their only beverage water ; that their cabins are sel Join a protection against the weather, that...
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Ireland: Historical and Statistical, Volume 2

George Lewis Smyth - Ireland - 1847 - 488 pages
...privations which the cottiers and labourers and their families in most parts of the country endure — in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water — their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather — a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury...
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Digest of Evidence Taken Before Her Majesty's Commissioners ..., Book 98, Part 2

Great Britain. Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of the Law and Practice in Respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland - Agricultural laborers - 1848 - 492 pages
...of the cottiers and labourers in most parts of the country, from the want of certain employ in ent. It would be impossible to describe adequately the...will be seen in the evidence, that in many districts thenonly food is the potato, their only beverage water, that their cabins are seldom a protection against...
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Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society, Volume 1, Part 1

Ireland - 1855 - 514 pages
...cottiers and labourers in most parts of the country, arising from the want of continuous employment. It would be impossible to describe adequately the...seldom a protection against the weather ; that a bed or blanket is a rare luxury, and that nearly in all their pig and manure heap constitute their only property."...
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Geschichte der Aufhebung der Leibeigenschaft und Hörigkeit in Europa bis um ...

Samuel Sugenheim - Feudal law - 1861 - 560 pages
...privations which the cottiers and labourers aud their families in most parts of the counlry endure; in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water, their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather, a bed or a blanke! is a rare luiury, nearly...
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