 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,...  A Handbook of the Law of Scotland - Pągina 442per James Lorimer - 1885 - 607 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 pągines
...are fare to be infulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houfes diftant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feait and riot for many days; and ac country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pągines
...peasantry in the disturbed parts of that unhappy country. — "In years of plenty," says Fletcher, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, aud at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men... | |
 | Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 pągines
...accuses them as 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 feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pągines
...accuses them as 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 feast and riot for many " days, and at country weddings, markets, 'burials, " and other public occasions, they are to be seen, " both men... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pągines
...riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* This high-minded statesman, of •whom it is 'said by A contemporary, " that he would lose his life... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pągines
...for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary, " that he would lose his life readily... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1809 - 1484 pągines
...are sure to be insulted by them); but they rob many poor people who live in house* distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days: and at country weddings, markets, and other like public occasions, they are to b'o seen, both men and women,... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pągines
...in a hundred went out of the world. They are frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together...mountains, where 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... | |
 | 1809 - 1080 pągines
...areiure to be insulted by them); but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands...meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riut tur many days: and at country weddings, markets, and other like public occasions, ilnry are to... | |
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