... so much to cover them ; their food commonly consists of dry potatoes, and with these they are at times so scantily supplied, as to be obliged to stint themselves to one spare meal in the day. There are even instances of persons being driven by hunger... The Dublin Magazine - Page 2581842Full view - About this book
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Ireland - 1907 - 716 pages
...times so scantily supplied as to be obliged to stint themselves to one spare meal in the day. . . . They sometimes get a herring or a little milk, but...meat except at Christmas, Easter, and Shrovetide." APPENDIX XXXVII (See Chapter VI, p. 187) How urgent the necessity was for some measure of reform was... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Ireland - 1907 - 720 pages
...supplied as to be obliged to stint themselves to one spare meal in the day. . . . They sometimes xel a herring or a little milk, but they never get meat except at Christmas, Easter, and Shrovetide." APPENDIX XXXVII (See Chapter VI, p. 187) How urgent the necessity was for some measure of reform was... | |
 | English literature - 1846 - 556 pages
...stint themselves to one spare meal in the day. There are even instances of persons being driveu by hunger to seek sustenance in wild herbs. They sometimes...a little milk, but they never get meat, except at Christinas, Easter, and Shrovetide. ' Some go in search of employment to Great Britain during the harvest,... | |
 | Charles W. Joyner - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 388 pages
...potatoes, and with these they are . . . obliged to stint themselves to one spare meal on the day. . . . They sometimes get a herring, or a little milk, but...they never get meat except at Christmas, Easter, and Shrovetide."42 But such comparisons may mislead as much as they illuminate. The amount of food stolen... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1890 - 1194 pages
...stint themselves to one spare meal in the day. There are even instances of persons being driven by hunger to seek sustenance in wild herbs. They sometimes...meat,, except at Christmas, Easter, and Shrovetide. The position of affairs as regards the labouring class was simply deplorable. There were no manufactures... | |
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