 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 514 страници
...been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision...such villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by hem), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1883 - 662 страници
...been discovered among them, and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to...in one day, are sure to be insulted by them), but the^ rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty many... | |
 | 1883 - 680 страници
...land or even those of God and Nature. They are not only an unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.' We have been used, owing in some degree to Scott's ' Edie Oehiltree,' to think of the Gaberlunzie or... | |
 | 1883 - 436 страници
...land or even those of God and Nature. They are not only an unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.' We have been used, owing in some degree to Scott's ' Edie Ochiltree,' to think of the Gaberlunzie or... | |
 | James Lorimer - 1885 - 688 страници
...are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some sort of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one...many poor people who live in houses distant from any 1 As an opponent to the Union, Fletcher was bound to make the best of former times. neighbourhood.... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 536 страници
...been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision...years of plenty many thousands of them meet together on the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials,... | |
 | J. Morrison Davidson - 1890 - 148 страници
...been discovered among them, and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to...who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. At country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen —... | |
 | James Logie Robertson - 1890 - 272 страници
...oppression to poor tenants who, to escape insult, must give bread to perhaps forty such villains in one day, but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighbours. At country weddings, markets, burials, and the like, they are to be seen — both men and... | |
 | John Martine - 1890 - 340 страници
...no laws could ever restrain. They are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, who, if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty villains in one day, are sure to be insulted by them ; but they rob many poor people who live in houses... | |
 | David MacRitchie - 1894 - 140 страници
...hundred of them died. ' They were not only (says he) a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who if they give not bread or some kind of provision to...many poor people, who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood.'"2 It seems pretty clear that the people described by Fletcher of Salton were the Scottish... | |
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Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not only a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in... 
