 | 1817 - 506 pages
...parts of that unhappy country. " In years of plenty," says Fletcher, " many thousands of them me«t together in the mountains, where they feast and riot...many days, and at country weddings, markets, burials, mod other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 694 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 feast and riot for many days ; and at country wed« drags, markets, burials, ami other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and... | |
 | Robert Robinson - Baptism - 1817 - 590 pages
...occasions where any thing was given away, or where any thing could be procured by theft. They were, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. A contemporary writer says : " No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1819 - 344 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." The other is from a speech in the House of Commons, of Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland, in 1803. "... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1820 - 241 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 feast and riot for many davs; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 246 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 to» gether.» Notwithstanding... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1822 - 344 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." The other is from a speech in the House of Commons, of Hope, Lord Advocate of Scotland, in 1803. "He... | |
 | Charles Richard Elrington - 1822 - 246 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..." at country weddings, markets, burials, and other such like " publick occasions, they are to be seen both men and wo" men perpetually drunk, cursing,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1824
...disturbed parts of that unhappy country.— " In years of plenty ," says Fletcher, " 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,... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Poor laws - 1824 - 190 pages
...daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister." " In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, there are to be seen both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
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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,... 
