 These are not only no way advantageous, but a 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 one hundred...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Page 100by Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Poor laws - 1824 - 190 pages
...two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. " And though the number of them," he says, " be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress," [a famine then prevailed,] " yet at all times there have been about one hundred ifliousand of those... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1825 - 168 pages
...various diseases,) 200,000 people begging ' from door to door. These are not only no ways advan' tageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country ;...perhaps double to ' what it was formerly, by reason of the present great dis' tress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of ' these vagabonds who... | |
 | Charles Fenton Mercer - Education - 1826 - 138 pages
...follows : " There are at this day, in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it formerly was, by reason of this present great distress (a famine then prevailed), yet in all times... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Poor laws - 1828 - 214 pages
...various diseases,) ' 200,000 people begging from door to door. These are not ' only no ways advantageous, but a very grievous burden to ' so poor a country ; and though the number of them be per' haps double to what it was formerly, by reason of the pre' sent great distress, yet in all times... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...begging /rom door to door. Those are not only noway advantageous, but a very grievous burden to »o mbers ono hmnlrea thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or euhj, -clion either to... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - Ecclesiastical law - 1830 - 446 pages
...various diseases,) 200,000 people begging from door to door. ' These are not only no ways advantageous, but a very grievous ' burden to so poor a country...perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of the ' present great distress, yet in all times there have been about ' 100,000 of these vagabonds,... | |
 | Robert Burns - Scotland - 1831 - 484 pages
...There are at this day in Scotland, two hundred thousand peopla begging from door to door. And thougb the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of thi* present great distress (a famine then pro vailed,) yet in all times there have been about one... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...from door to door. And though the numbur of them be double to what U was formerly, by reason of this great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, whu have lived without any regard, or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1837 - 656 pages
...diseases) two hundred thoutand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And...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 the... | |
 | William Scott - Phrenology - 1837 - 382 pages
...country ; and though the number of these 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 submission either to the laws of the land, or... | |
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