 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,...  The Quarterly Review - Page 331publié par - 1813Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Walter Scott - 1857 - 336 pages
...neighbourhood. 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,...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | 1874 - 792 pages
...neighborhood. 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 like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | John M'Elheran - 1858 - 414 pages
...; many murders have been discovered among them." " At country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." This is the Scotchman's account of his own Bible-reading country. The free Bible reading was hot to... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...neighbourhood. 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 the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drank, cursing, blaspheming,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1862 - 876 pages
...neighbourhood. 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,...the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both man and woman, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Notwithstanding the... | |
 | 1860 - 664 pages
...by them. 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,...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 692 pages
...by them. 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,...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 662 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many Hays; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1860 - 484 pages
...by them. 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,...occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetnally drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outragcous disorders,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1861 - 660 pages
...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... | |
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