 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...upon bad food fall into various difeafes) two hundred thoufand people begging from door to door. Thefe are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to fb poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by by reafon... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 474 pages
...upon bad food fall into various difeafes) two hundred thoufand people begging from door to door. Thefe are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to ib poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, en the... | |
 | Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 pages
...There are at this day, in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And tho the number of them be perhaps double to what it was...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed,) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...follows: " There are at this day, in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of them be perhaps double to...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...tells us, " There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door; and though the number of them be perhaps double to...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed,) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds,... | |
 | History - 1809 - 1080 pages
...500,000 people beting from rl'jorw door. Thes* are not only no way advantageous, but a very great burthen to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double ot what it u as formerly, by reason of this present great distress; yet in all times there hnve been... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...tells us, " There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door; and though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was * I have thus spoken of the Emperor Alexander, because Ithink, in justice, I cannot speakotherwise... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...follows : " There are at this day in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of them be perhaps double to...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 648 pages
...the church-boxes, and " others who, by living upon bad food, " fall into various diseases) 200,000 people " begging from door to door. These are " not only no way advantageous, but a " verv great burtlien to so poor a country. " And though the number of them be per" haps double to... | |
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These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress... 
