| Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thoufands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feaft and riot for many days ; and at .country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick occafions, they are L to to be feen both men and women perpetually drunk, curfing, blafpheming,... | |
| Andrew Fletcher - England - 1737 - 466 pages
...neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thoufands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feaft and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick occafions, they are L to to be feen both men and women perpetually drunk, curfing, blafpheming,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...disturbed parts of that unhappy country. — "In years of plenty," says Fletcher, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, aud at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men... | |
| Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 pages
...frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder : " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder, " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the " mountains, where they...at country weddings, markets, 'burials, " and other public occasions, they are to be seen, " both men and women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder: " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...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 high-minded statesman, of •whom it is 'said by A contemporary, " that he would lose his life... | |
| Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) - Charities - 1809 - 400 pages
...frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder: " In years of " plenty," says, he, " many thousands of them " meet together in the mountains ; where they...at country " weddings, markets, burials, and other public " occasions, they are to be seen, both men and "women, perpetually drunk; cursing, blas" pheming,... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...world. They are frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...many poor people who live in house* distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...riot for many days: and at country weddings, markets, and other like public occasions, they are to b'o seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing,... | |
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