 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,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 831874Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 550 lehte
...where they feast and riot for many day»; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." Fletcher was a lover of liberty, and a sincere one ; yet he seriously proposed, as a remedy for this... | |
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