 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 pagine
...one day, 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 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... | |
 | 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,...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 - 1803 - 428 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,...they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, market;;, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually... | |
 | 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...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 women,... | |
 | Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) - 1809 - 400 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...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,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 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 in the mountains, there they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 648 pagine
...are not otily an unspeakable oppression to poor tenants 1 (who if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at • are levied according to the valued rent of the lands, the one half being paid by the heritors,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 pagine
...world. He accuses them as guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder. " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains,...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, perpetually... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 pagine
...poor tenants (if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to, perhaps, forty such villains on one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they...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... | |
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Many murders have been discovered among them; and they are not only 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... 
