 In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk,...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Seite 281813Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1817 - 506 Seiten
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at country weddings, markets, burials, mod other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Such was the state of Sootland at the time when the present system of education was established. It... | |
 | 1817 - 708 Seiten
...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. " Notwithstanding the... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1819 - 344 Seiten
...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." The other is from a speech in the House of Commons, of Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland, in 1803. "... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 Seiten
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman^ perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting to» gether.» Notwithstanding... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1822 - 344 Seiten
...many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, ' where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." The other is from a speech in the House of Commons, of Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland, in 1803. "He... | |
 | 1824 - 470 Seiten
...many •thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, ahd at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the...'drunk, cursing, blaspheming and fighting together." * These then are the laws ; and this the description of persons emancipated, without the means of subsistence,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 858 Seiten
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Such was the state of Scotland at the time when the present system of education was established. It... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1824 - 190 Seiten
...and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, there are to be seen both men and women, perpetually drunk,...cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together*."— A more gloomy picture of depravity could scarcely be drawn : yet, after various attempts, schools were... | |
 | Hibernian Sunday school society - 1827 - 470 Seiten
...where they feast and riot for many days ; and at • country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. " A system of parochial instruction was shortly after adopted in Scotland ; then one of the most barbarous... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1828 - 214 Seiten
...many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; ' and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and wo. ' men perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting. ' together.'1 i Second Discourse concerning... | |
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