| 1821 - 408 страници
...scarcity, almost amounting to famine, had produced the most frightful distress. There were, " besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for...church-boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fell into various diseases, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door." The country was... | |
| 1821 - 404 страници
...scarcity, almost amounting to famine, had produced the most frightful distress. There were, " besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for...church-boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fell into various diseases, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door." The country was... | |
| William Johnson Fox - 1822 - 344 страници
...the Affairs of Scotland, and refers to the year 1698. " There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for...others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 страници
...occurs the following sketch : State of Scotland in 1C98. There are at this day in Scotland — besides + on bad food, fall into various diseases — two hundred thousand purple, begging /rom door to door.... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 442 страници
...Saltoun, gives a dreadful picture : ' There are, at this day,' he says (1698), ' in ' Scotland, besides a great many poor families, ' very meanly provided...others, who by living upon bad food fall ' into various diseases), two hundred thousand ' people begging from door to door. And, though ' the number of these... | |
| Anonymous - 1813 - 552 страници
...Saltoun, gives a dreadful picture : 'There are, at this day,' he says,(l698), 'in Scotland, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided for...others, who by living upon bad food fall into various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And, though the number of these be... | |
| 1843 - 798 страници
...tbis day'' he says, (1698) " in Scotland, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided fur by the church-boxes, (with others who by living upon bad food fall into various diseases,) fipo hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be,... | |
| James Taylor (of Bakewell.) - 1852 - 96 страници
...of the condition of his poorer countrymen: — "There are, at this day (1698) in Scotland, besides a " great many poor families, very meanly provided...others who by living upon bad " food fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand " people begging from door to door. And though the " number of these... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 страници
...occurs the following sketch : State of Scotland in 1698. There are at this day in Scotland — besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church-boxes, with others who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases — two hundred thousand people begging from door to door.... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 страници
...Discourse on the Affairs of Scotland.) ENSLAVEMENT OF VAGABONDS THERE are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many poor families very meanly provided for...others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These are not only no way advantageous,... | |
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