 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
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 846 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."* We suspect there must be a great deal of exaggeration in this striking paragraph ; for, as Scotland... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 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." This is no true picture of Scotch life now. In less than half a century from Fletcher's time, common... | |
 | George Nicholls - 1856 - 348 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." g There may be some exaggeration in this statement, for it is difficult to believe that there could... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1856 - 764 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." 17. Does it appear, from historical records, that that state of things continued long after the date... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1857 - 350 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" (Works, p. 100). In the last century, the town council of Glasgow issued a proclamation containing... | |
 | 1874 - 792 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. " It is only fair to the Scottish people to say that the demoralization described by Fletcher was in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 326 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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - 1858 - 478 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. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the galleys... | |
 | John M'Elheran - 1858 - 414 Seiten
...; many murders have been discovered among them." " At country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." This is the Scotchman's account of his own Bible-reading country. The free Bible reading was hot to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 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 men and women, perpetually drank, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were... | |
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