 | Andrew Fletcher - History - 1997 - 304 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...country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | George Nicholls - Poor laws - 2005 - 300 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...perpetually drunk, cursing blaspheming and fighting together."8 There may be some exaggeration in this statement, for it is difficult to believe that there... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1842 - 606 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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* Another author gives the following account from the First Statistical Reports. " Scotland has at all... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892 - 738 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 fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | E. M. Leonard (Of Girton College) - Poor laws - 1965 - 428 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...and at country weddings, markets, burials and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1838 - 540 pages
...and were guilty of robbery, and sometimes murder. " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, bvrials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing,... | |
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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,... 
