 | James Gordon - Ireland - 1801 - 428 pages
...on bread " or potatoes, to drink water, to make the ftones " of the ftreet their bed, and to fleep in their " clothes, with no covering but the canopy of " heaven. One half of their number had ferved " in Italy under Buonaparte ; the reft were of the " army of the Rhine, where they hadfufFereddif"... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 508 pages
...no cover but the canopy of heaven. One half of their number had served in Italy under Buonaparte -t the rest were of the army of the Rhine, where they had suffered distresses, that well accounted for their persons and wan looks. The rebels, who had joined the French, were with great difficulty restrained... | |
 | 1806 - 240 pages
...live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the (tones of the ft reel their bed, and to deep id their clothes, with no covering but the canopy of heaven. One half of their number had ferved in Italy under Buonaparte ; the reft were of the army of the Rhine, where they had fuffered... | |
 | Francis Plowden - Ireland - 1806 - 516 pages
...drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no cover but the canopy of heaven. One half of their number had served in Italy under Buonaparte ; the rest were of the army of the Rhine, where they had suffered distresses, that well... | |
 | Ireland - 1809 - 644 pages
...well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but...had served in Italy under Bonaparte ; the rest were from the army of the Rhine, where they had suffered distresses that well accounted for thin persons... | |
 | Samuel Burdy - Ireland - 1817 - 596 pages
...and sallow, occasioned by excessive hardships, to which they were inured by time. One half of them had served in Italy under Bonaparte; the rest were of the army of the Rhine, where they had suffered such distresses as might well account for their looks.* In these soldiers were combined activity, temperance,... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Engraving - 1844 - 312 pages
...well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but...One half of their number had served in Italy under Buonaparte; the rest were of the army of the Rhine, where they had suffered distresses that well accounted... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Autonomy and independence movements - 1845 - 576 pages
...well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but the canopy of heaven. One-half of their number had served in Italy under Bonaparte ; the rest were of the army of the Rhine,... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Ireland - 1851 - 388 pages
...well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but...they had suffered distresses that well accounted for their thin persons and wan looks. Several of them declared, -with all the marks of sincerity, that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1851 - 382 pages
...well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering but the canopy of heaven.' It may well be imagined in what terror the families of Killala heard of a French invasion, and the... | |
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... any hardship. These were the men, however, of whom it was presently observed, that they could be well content to live on bread or potatoes, to drink water, to make the stones of the street their bed, and to sleep in their clothes, with no covering... 
