 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
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 Seiten
...many thousands of them meet together in the moun- . tains, 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... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - 1848 - 560 Seiten
...mountains, 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." This state of abject poverty and wild disorder cannot be attributed to the density of the population.... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1849 - 356 Seiten
...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,...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.'* We may learn from this, and from King's statement, that in 1696 there were 1,330,000 beggars in England,... | |
 | Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - 1849 - 574 Seiten
...together in mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, and burials, and other the like public occasions, they...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." When the Union took place between England and Scotland, the revenue arising from the latter country... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 Seiten
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold to the galleys... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1851 - 496 Seiten
...mountains, 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. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1852 - 96 Seiten
...many " thousands of them meet together in the monntains, " where they feast and riot for many days ; and at " country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, " and fighting together." By this description it will be seen, that the state of the poor in Scotland in 1698 was not any better... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 532 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 arc to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 676 Seiten
...mountains, 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." At those times, and sixty years afterwards, the best land in the now celebrated agricultural counties... | |
 | George William Rusden - 1853 - 382 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 Been, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming and fighting together. These are... | |
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