 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 one day, are sure to be insulted by them) but they...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 55по Walter Scott - 1820 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Charles Fenton Mercer - 1826 - 138 страници
...accuses them as frequently guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder. " In years of plenty," says he, " 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 public occasions, they are to be sepn,... | |
 | Hibernian Sunday school society - 1827 - 470 страници
...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 by them) but they...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 - 388 страници
...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,) but...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 362 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Dunlop - 1830 - 446 страници
...tenants, (who, if they give not bread, or some sort of ' provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure ' to be insulted by them,) but...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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...tenants— who, if they give uot bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in oue . Of these, iu houses distant from any neighbourhood. In years of plenty, many thon- ande of them meet together... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1831 - 484 страници
...guilty of robbery, and sometimes of murder: " In years of plenty," says he, " many thousands of men meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other public occasions, they are to be seen,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 страници
...(who, if they give not bread, or '• some kind of provision to, perhaps, forty such vil' lains on one day, are sure to be insulted by them), ' but they...the mountains, where they feast and riot for * many days; and at country weddings, markets, ' burials, and other the like public occasions, they ' are... | |
 | 1832 - 952 страници
...have occasionally held a sort of wild iatnrnaU» :— « In years of plenty, t continues our anther, " many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot fer many days; and at country weddings, markets, aud burials, and at other the like public occasions,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 страници
...them as frequently guilty of rohhery, and- sometimes of murder; " In years of plenty," says he, '' many thousands of them meet together In the mountains, where they feast find riot fur many days; and at country weddings, markets, hurials, and other puhlic occasions, they... | |
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