 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 594 стор.
...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: nearly... | |
 | National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1870 - 670 стор.
...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 tho potato, their only beverage water, that their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather,... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell, Mary Francis Cusack - 1875 - 632 стор.
...privations which the cottiers and labourers and their families in most parts of the country endure ; that in many districts their only food is the potato,...only beverage water; that their cabins are seldom protection against the weather ; that a bed or blanket is a rare luxury; and that nearly in all, their... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - 1891 - 728 стор.
...their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather,' ' a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury,' ' in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water.' 4 The evidence which I have now quoted as to the Land question may be best summed up in the words of... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - 1902 - 1550 стор.
...the system of protection that prevailed in 1840. The commissioners point out — It will be seen in evidence that in many districts their only food is...weather, that a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury. Who brought about a change in the policy of England in 1840 ? Was it not one of the strongest protectionists... | |
 | Australia. Parliament - 1902 - 1538 стор.
...commissioners point out — It will be seen in evidence that in many districts their only food is the |x>tnto, their only beverage water, that their cabins are seldom...weather, that a bed or a blanket is a rare luxury. Who brought about a change in the policy of England in 1840 ? Was it not one of the strongest protectionist«... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1907 - 716 стор.
...greater, we believe, than the people of any other country in Europe have to sustain." And again — " 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 ;... | |
 | Tom Kettle - 1911 - 128 стор.
...in the country. Seven-tenths of the rural population living in habitations unfit for human beings. " In many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water. ... A YEAR bed or a blanket is a rare luxury." 1849-50 The Great " Famine." Between 1846 and 1851,... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1928 - 536 стор.
...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 : nearly... | |
 | 1864 - 632 стор.
...which they [the cottiers and labourers] and their families almost habitually and patiently endure. It will be seen in the evidence that in many districts...seldom a protection against the weather ; that a bed or n blanket is a rare luxury ; and that nearly in all, their pig and their manure-heap constitute their... | |
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... it would be impossible to describe adequately the sufferings and 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, their only beverage water... 
