 | Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - Perth (Scotland) - 1849 - 574 pages
...houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, and burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1850 - 508 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, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Teachers - 1851 - 496 pages
...perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them. 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 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...days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - Economics - 1852 - 96 pages
...from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many " thousands of them meet together in the monntains, " where they feast and riot for many days ; and at "...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, " and fighting together." By this description it will be seen, that the state of the poor in Scotland in 1698 was not any better... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1852 - 532 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...burials, and other the like public occasions, they arc to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."... | |
 | George William Rusden - Church and education - 1853 - 382 pages
...perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...and other the like public occasions, they are to be Been, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming and fighting together. These are... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 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,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 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."* We suspect there must be a great deal of exaggeration in this striking paragraph ; for, as Scotland... | |
 | Henry Barnard - Education - 1854 - 904 pages
...perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them. In years of 'plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, thai it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
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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,... 
