| Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...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...when the present system of education was established. Jt is justly stated by Dr. Currie that, at the present day, there is perhaps no country in Europe,... | |
| Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...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,...be seen, " both men and women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming, and fighting together."^ -This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...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,...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 pages
...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,...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... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." ^ These dreadful evils were not mowed down by the sword, they were not exterminated by ferocious penal... | |
| Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...mountains, there they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public occasions, they are to be seen, both...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." These dreadful evils were not mowed down by the sword, they were not exterminated by ferocious penal... | |
| Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...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,...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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1813 - 540 pages
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
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