 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
 | Sir Richard Francis Burton - 1863 - 364 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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' Women are there skilful in weeping and shrieking ' like mandrakes torn from the ground •/ the sound... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 438 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 418 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," — he proceeded to urge that every man of a certain estate should be obliged to take a proportionate... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1867 - 394 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," — he proceeded to urge that every man of a certain estate should be obliged to take a proportionate... | |
 | 1868 - 812 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 ; ' he proceeded to urge that every man of a certain estate should be obliged to take a proportionate... | |
 | Chalmers association - 1870 - 252 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." I dare say Fletcher's calculation of the number of paupers in his day was only a rough, and, perhaps,... | |
 | James Lorimer - 1873 - 576 pagina’s
...days; and at the country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they may be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." * 1882. The object of the earlier statute law of Scotland, 1*ginning with the reign of James I. (1424,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1874 - 658 pagina’s
...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,...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.' To remedy this evil, Fletcher proposed in all seriousness what reads like Swift's suggestion to convert... | |
 | William Alexander - 1877 - 242 pagina’s
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and the like public occasions, they are to be seen —...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Perhaps this sketch by the sincere and ardent patriot may be strongly enough outlined ; the numbers... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 pagina’s
...plenty many thousands of them meet together on 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 rtghting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
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