 And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 100by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Scott - Phrenology - 1837 - 422 pages
...been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or submission either to the laws of the land, or even those of God or nature." Then follows a description of crimes too gross to be particularized ; and he afterwards... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1813 - 552 pages
...number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand...laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the soi with the mother, and the brother... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in nil times there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard...subjection either to the laws of the land, or even tho.-e of God and nature : fathers incestuously accompanying with Jheir own daughters, the son with... | |
 | William Maxwell Gunn - Religious education - 1840 - 496 pages
...there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or submission, either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 376 pages
...number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand...of God and nature **»***. No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...of them be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet, in all times, there have been about one hundred thousand...those of God and Nature. No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a hundred of those wretches died, or that ever they were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 710 pages
...nurober of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all' times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without anv regard; or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; ***•».... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - Education - 1842 - 586 pages
...according to Fletcher of Saltoun, roamed over the land, living by pillage and beggary, and having " no regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even to those of God and Nature." What a change has since been wrought ! and who can doubt that, in producing... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1844 - 720 pages
...all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without anv Gorf and nature ; ****«. No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a hundred... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...Saltoun, who wrote about 150 years ago, states that " in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the laud or even those of God and nature." In the progress of time, however, as the power of the laws,... | |
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