 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...door to door. 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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress," (the period from 1693 to 1700 was long known in Scotland as the " seven ill-years,") " yet in all times... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...patriot, Fletcher of Saltoun. In the year 1698, he declared, that "There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door....formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed,) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...door to door. 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...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... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...he declared, that "There arc at this Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to dooi though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was fo by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevail in all times there have been about... | |
 | George Nicholls - Poor laws - 1856 - 310 pages
...provided for by the church boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door...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 those vagabonds,... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Christian sociology - 1856 - 764 pages
...to door. Thene are not only no ways 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 the present great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, who... | |
 | George Nicholls - Poor laws - 1856 - 348 pages
...door — 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 those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 336 pages
...door to door. 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...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...to door. These »re 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 on of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Day - Juvenile delinquency - 1858 - 490 pages
...These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country; and although the number of them be, perhaps, double to what it was formerly, yet in all times there has been about a hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
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... 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 though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great... 
