| Alexander Dunlop - 1828 - 214 páginas
...not only a most unspeakable ' oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or ' some sort of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one...' like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and wo. ' men perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting. ' together.'1 i Second Discourse... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 páginas
...poor people who live iu houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thon- ande of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days» ; and at country-weddings, markets, burials, and the'like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and... | |
| Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 páginas
...guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder: " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of men meet together in the mountains, where they feast and...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cuffing, blaspheming,... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 páginas
...(who, if they give not bread, or '• some kind of provision to, perhaps, forty such vil' lains on one day, are sure to be insulted by them), ' but they...like public occasions, they ' are to be seen, both men and women, perpe' tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting ' together.' Fletcher was a... | |
| 1832 - 952 páginas
...have occasionally held a sort of wild iatnrnaU» :— « In years of plenty, t continues our anther, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot fer many days; and at country weddings, markets, aud burials, and at other the like public occasions,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 páginas
...them as frequently guilty of rohhery, and- sometimes of murder; " In years of plenty," says he, '' many thousands of them meet together In the mountains, where they feast find riot fur many days; and at country weddings, markets, hurials, and other puhlic occasions, they... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837 - 656 páginas
...oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps furly such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." • We suspect there... | |
| William Scott - 1837 - 382 páginas
...are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread or some sort of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
| Anonymous - 1813 - 552 páginas
...insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood, hi years of plenty many thousands of them meet together...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1839 - 736 páginas
...; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." * We suspect there... | |
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