 | 1824 - 470 pages
...poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, 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 like public occasions, they are to be seen,... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1825 - 168 pages
...poor people, who live in houses ' distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many ' thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where ( they feast and riot for many days ; and at country wed' dings, markets, burials, and other the like public occa' sions, they are to be seen, both men... | |
 | Charles Fenton Mercer - Education - 1826 - 138 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 sepn, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Hibernian Sunday school society - 1827 - 470 pages
...who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. " In years of plenty many thousands of them meet in the mountains where they feast and riot for many...• country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1828 - 214 pages
...poor ' people, who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. ' In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they...public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and wo. ' men perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting. ' together.'1 i Second Discourse concerning... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 388 pages
...many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing1, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Ecclesiastical law - 1830 - 446 pages
...for many days ; and at coun' try weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public oc' casions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.'> 1 2. These vagabonds had long greatly abounded ; and so early as the year 14.24, in the reign of James... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...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 - 438 pages
...poor people who live in houses ' distant from any neighbourhood. In years of ' plenty many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they...occasions, they ' are to be seen, both men and women, perpe' tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting ' together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty,... | |
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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,... 
