 In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk,...  Analectic Magazine, and Naval Chronicle - Pagina 281813Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 pagina’s
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1830 - 446 pagina’s
...for many days ; and at coun' try weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public oc' casions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.'> 1 2. These vagabonds had long greatly abounded ; and so early as the year 14.24, in the reign of James... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pagina’s
...where they feast and riot for many days» ; and at country-weddings, markets, burials, and the'like to8? + curbing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 pagina’s
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cuffing, blaspheming, and fighting together."* This highminded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 438 pagina’s
...many thousands of them meet together in ' the mountains, where they feast and riot for ' many days ; and at country weddings, markets, ' burials, and other...occasions, they ' are to be seen, both men and women, perpe' tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting ' together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 pagina’s
...seen, both men and women, perpe' tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting' together.' *~r ' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere * one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy fur this ev il.. the re-establishment of domestic slavery, . ^ drawing arguments from the example of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 pagina’s
...• • --• • le who live in i of the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and nl country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837 - 656 pagina’s
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." • We suspect there must be some exaggeration in this striking paragraph ; for, as Scotland did not... | |
 | William Scott - 1837 - 422 pagina’s
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Such is Fletcher's account, and as at this period the population of Scotland amounted to only one million,... | |
 | Anonymous - 1813 - 552 pagina’s
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days : and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...fighting together.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a^incere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this evil, the re-establishment of domestic... | |
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