 | Walter Scott - 1841 - 376 pages
...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,...thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature **»***. No... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 712 pages
...grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it wos formerly, by reason of this present great distress,...subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; ••»«». No mapistrate could ever discover, or he informell, which way one in... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1846 - 850 pages
...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,...thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; *****. No... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - Political Science - 1848 - 560 pages
...country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of the present great distress ; yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection to the laws of the land, or even to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Economics - 1849 - 356 pages
...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, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, .who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the lawes of... | |
 | Thomas Hay Marshall, Henry Adamson - Perth (Scotland) - 1849 - 574 pages
...grevious burden to so poor a country ; and though the number of them may be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection, either to the laws of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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,...thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature. No magistrate... | |
 | Walter Scott - Historical fiction, Scottish - 1852 - 532 pages
...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,...thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature j * * * *... | |
 | James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - Economics - 1852 - 96 pages
...though the " number of these be perhaps double to what it was " formerly, by reason of the present distress, yet in all " times there have been about...thousand of " those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard " or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even to " those of God and nature No... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...great distress," (the period from 1693 to 1700 was long known in Scotland as the " seven ill-years,") " yet in all times there have been about one hundred...thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land or even those of God or nature." (He goes on... | |
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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... 
