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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... "
The Novels of Walter Scott: With All His Introd. and Notes - Page 205
by Sir Walter Scott - 1846
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Object Teaching and Oral Lessons on Social Science and Common Things: With ...

Henry Barnard - Education, Primary - 1860 - 484 pages
...sure to be insulted by them. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetnally drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outragcous...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 9

Henry Barnard - Education - 1860 - 692 pages
...sure to be insulted by them. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous...
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A Hand-book of the Law of Scotland

James Lorimer - Law - 1862 - 678 pages
...(who, if they give not bread, or some sort of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at the country weddings, markets, burials,...
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A Hand-book of the Law of Scotland

James Lorimer - Law - 1862 - 538 pages
...(who, if they give not bread, or some sort of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at the country weddings, markets, burials,...
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A Catalogue of Books, the Property of a Political Economist: With Critical ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - Catalogs, Dictionary - 1862 - 432 pages
...(who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps 40 such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and...
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Waverley Novels, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1864 - 386 pages
...In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and not for many days ; and at country weddings, markets,...blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the deplorable picture presented in this extract, and which Fletcher himself, though the energetic and...
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Waverly Novels: The antiquary. 1857

Walter Scott - 1857 - 438 pages
...(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...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and...
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Publications, Volume 1

1869 - 390 pages
...(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...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and...
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The Waverley Novels, Volume 2

Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 468 pages
...(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...years of plenty many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials,...
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Pauperism and the poor laws: lects delivered in 1869-70, with kindred papers ...

Chalmers association - 1870 - 252 pages
...and some sort of provision to perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them). They rob many poor people who live in houses distant...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at country weddings, markets, burials, and...
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