 | Alexander Dunlop - 1830 - 446 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 pages
...• • --• • 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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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.' Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a^incere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 pages
...plenty many thousands of them meet together iu the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...women, perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and righting together." * We suspect there must be some exaggeration in this striking paragraph ; for,... | |
 | William Maxwell Gunn - 1840 - 496 pages
...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.' " 17- Does it appear, from historical records, that that state of things continued long after the date... | |
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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,... 
