| Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...oppression to poor tenants, (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty of such 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, many thousands of them meet together in... | |
| William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1822 - 344 pages
...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 ' NOTES. 319 them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... | |
| William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1822 - 344 pages
...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 .NOTES. 319 them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... | |
| Hibernian Sunday school society - 1827 - 470 pages
...unspeakable oppression to the poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some provision to perhaps 40 such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted...neighbourhood. " In years of plenty many thousands of them meet in the mountains where they feast and riot for many days ; and at • country weddings, markets, burials,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 pages
...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,) bnt they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty... | |
| Alexander Dunlop - Ecclesiastical law - 1830 - 446 pages
...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...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the moun' tains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at coun' try weddings, markets, burials,... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...tenants— who, if they give uot bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in oue . Of these, iu houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thon- ande of them meet together... | |
| Walter Scott - English literature - 1833 - 880 pages
...not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind • • --• • le who live in i of the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and... | |
| Anonymous - History - 1813 - 552 pages
...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...who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood, hi years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give, not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty sucli villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them),...years of plenty many thousands of them meet together iu the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials,... | |
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