| Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 páginas
...Thefe are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to fb poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by by reafon of this prefent great diftrefs, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thoufand... | |
| Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 474 páginas
...Thefe are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to ib poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, en the Affairs of Scotland. by reafon of this prefent great diftrefs, yet in all times there have been... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 páginas
...There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door; and though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was...times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land or... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 páginas
...longeran independent Sovereign. This is neither just nor liberal towards an unfortunate Prince. 214 formerly, by reason of this present great distress,...times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land or... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 648 páginas
...advantageous, but a " verv great burtlien to so poor a country. " And though the number of them be per" haps double to what it was formerly, by " reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard... | |
| 1813 - 552 páginas
...various diseases), two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 páginas
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And, though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have' lived without... | |
| 1813 - 550 páginas
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
| Robert Burns, James Currie - 1814 - 502 páginas
...hegging from door to door. And though the numher of them he perhaps douhle to what it was formerly, hy reason of this present great distress (a famine then prevailed), yet in all times there have heen ahout one hundred thousand of those vagahonds, who have lived without any regard or suhjeetion... | |
| Walter Scott - 1815 - 356 páginas
...These are not only no way advantageous, but a very grievous burden to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, jet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
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