 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
 | A. Scott Matheson - Christian socialism - 1894 - 394 pages
...at this day in Scotland 200,000 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 double to what it was formerly, by reason of the present great distress, yet in all times there have... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - Scotland - 1899 - 290 pages
...door. "There are," he wrote,1 " at this day two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of them be perhaps double to...times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - Science - 1899 - 442 pages
...living on bad food. fall into various diseaseSj two hundred thousand people begging from door to door ; and though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this great present distress, yet at all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds who have... | |
 | E. M. Leonard - Business & Economics - 1900 - 426 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...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 who have... | |
 | England - 1817 - 698 pages
...diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And...times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And...times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | American essays - 1874 - 812 pages
...day in Scotland 200,000 people begging from door to door; these are not only no ways advantageous, ¡3 $ !^ &[ O mI ~8 d what it was formerly, by reason of the present great distress, yet in all times there have been •... | |
 | 1883 - 1060 pages
...families very meanly provided for by church boxes) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. Though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly by reason of this great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Nature - 2000 - 416 pages
...200,000 persons in Scotland begging from door to door; 'and though' he continues 'the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present distress, yet in all time there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - Nature - 2006 - 409 pages
...200,000 persons in Scotland begging from door to door; 'and though' he continues 'the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present distress, yet in all time there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
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