 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 - Seite 281813Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 Seiten
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, aud at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Such was the state of Scotland at the time when the present system of education was established. Jt... | |
 | Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 Seiten
...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."* This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary, " that he would lose his life readily... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 Seiten
...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, curs" ing, blaspheming, and fighting together."^ -This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...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."* This high-minded statesman, of •whom it is 'said by A contemporary, " that he would lose his life... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...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."* This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary, " that he would lose his life readily... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 Seiten
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." ^ These dreadful evils were not mowed down by the sword, they were not exterminated by ferocious penal... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 Seiten
...mountains, there they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and on other public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." These dreadful evils were not mowed down by the sword, they were not exterminated by ferocious penal... | |
 | Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) - 1809 - 400 Seiten
...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; cursing, blas" pheming, and fighting together."* This high minded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 Seiten
...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." This high minded statesman, of whom it is said by a contemporary, " that he would lose his life readily... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 648 Seiten
...PAUL. DEBATES, FEBRUARY 19, 1807 — Poor-Laws Bill. " country weddings, markets, burials, and " other like public occasions, they are " to be seen, both men and women, perpe" tually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and " fighting together. — These are sucli out. " raucous... | |
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