 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...  Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 101по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 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
...informed, which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not...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
...accompanying with their own daughters, the son with the mother, and the brother with the sister. Many murders have been discovered among them, and they are not...who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. At country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen —... | |
 | John Martine - 1890 - 340 страници
...This country has always swarmed with such numbers of idle vagabonds as no laws could ever restrain. They are not only a most unspeakable oppression to...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | David MacRitchie - 1894 - 140 страници
...ever they were baptised, or which way one in a hundred of them died. ' They were not only (says he) a most unspeakable oppression to poor tenants (who...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... | |
 | George William Thomson Omond - 1897 - 168 страници
...any regard or subjection to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature. . . . Many murders have been discovered among them, and they are not...who live in houses distant from any neighbourhood. At country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like occasions, they are to be seen — both men... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 страници
...informed, which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not...provision to perhaps forty such villains in one day, art sure to be insulted by them), but they rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 556 страници
...discover, which way one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not...many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they... | |
 | John Hill Burton - 1898 - 676 страници
...which way any one in a hundred of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptised. Many murders have been discovered among them ; and they are not...unspeakable oppression to poor tenants — who if they give them not bread, or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in one day, are sure to be... | |
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