 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 pagine
...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... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 pagine
...neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thoufands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feaft and riot for many days ; and at .country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick occafions, they are L to to be feen both men and women perpetually drunk, curfing,... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1737 - 466 pagine
...neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thoufands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feaft and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick occafions, they are L to to be feen both men and women perpetually drunk, curfing,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pagine
...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 pagine
...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,...weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."*... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pagine
...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,...weddings, markets, 'burials, " and other public occasions, they are to be seen, " both men and women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming, and fighting... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pagine
...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,...weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."*... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pagine
...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...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,... | |
 | Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) - 1809 - 414 pagine
...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...weddings, markets, burials, and other public " occasions, they are to be seen, both men and " women, perpetually drunk ; cursing, bias" pheming, and fighting... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1809 - 1484 pagine
...insulted by them); but they rob many poor people who live in house* distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together...riot for many days: and at country weddings, markets, and other like public occasions, they are to b'o seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing,... | |
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... a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... 
