 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...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, blafpheming,... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1737 - 466 pages
...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, blafpheming,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1816 - 838 pages
...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 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,...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | 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,...at country weddings, markets, 'burials, " and other public occasions, they are to be seen, " both men and women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming,... | |
 | 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,...and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | History - 1809 - 1080 pages
...they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to pefhaps forty of such villains in one day, areiure to be insulted by them); but they rob many poor people...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...villains in one day, 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,...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,... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...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) - Charities - 1809 - 414 pages
...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...at country " weddings, markets, burials, and other public " occasions, they are to be seen, both men and " women, perpetually drunk ; cursing, bias" pheming,... | |
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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... 
