 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 317 pages
...sometimes of murder. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, there they feast and riot for many 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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812
...them as 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,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812
...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 • are levied according to the valued rent of the lands, the one half being paid by the heritors,... | |
 | 1813
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere one; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813
...neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the .mountains, where they least and riot for many days : and at country weddings,...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
 | Books - 1813
...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 feast and riot for many dayť; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1814
...frequently guilty of rohhery, and sometimes of murder. " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at eountry weddings, mar. kets, hurials, and other puhlie oeeasions, they are to he seen, hoth men and... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 358 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, cursing, blaspheming, and lighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815
...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...weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasion, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting... | |
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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,... 
