 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 pages
...one day, are fare to be infulted by them) but they rob many poor people who live in houfes diftant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many thousands...of them meet together in the mountains, where they feait and riot for many days; and ac country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like publick... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1809 - 1154 pages
...oppression to poor tenants, (who if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty of such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted...by them); but they rob many poor people who live in house* distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thousands of them meet together in... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...in a hundred went out of the world. They are frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, there they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 544 pages
...poor tenants (if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to, perhaps, forty such villains on one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they...of them meet together in the .mountains, where they least and riot for many days : and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...poor tenants, (if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to, perhaps, forty such villains on one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but they...thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where ftey feast and riot for many days; and atpountry weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1822 - 344 pages
...most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by ' NOTES. 319 them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1822 - 344 pages
...most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by .NOTES. 319 them,) but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.... | |
 | Hibernian Sunday school society - 1827 - 470 pages
...unspeakable oppression to the poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some provision to perhaps 40 such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted...neighbourhood. " In years of plenty many thousands of them meet in the mountains where they feast and riot for many days ; and at • country weddings, markets, burials,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 pages
...most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them,) bnt they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1830 - 446 pages
...unspeakable oppression ' to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some sort of ' provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure...plenty, many thousands of them meet together in the moun' tains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at coun' try weddings, markets, burials,... | |
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