 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister." He goes on to say, that no magistrate ever could discover that they had ever been baptized,...burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* This high-minded... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...the son with the mother, " and the brother with the sister." He goes on to say, that no magistrate ever could discover that they had ever been baptized,...'burials, " and other public occasions, they are to be seen, " both men and women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming, and fighting together."^ -This... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother With the sister." He goes on to say, that no magistrate ever could discover that they had ever been baptized,...burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* This high-minded... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...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,...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1809 - 1484 pages
...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 the mountains,...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,... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...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 occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
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... 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 rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... 
