 | Andrew Fletcher - England - 1732 - 492 pages
...begging from door to door. 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 - England - 1732 - 474 pages
...begging from door to door. 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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...follows: " 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 formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...tells us, " 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 formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed,) yet in all times there have been about one... | |
 | Sir John Carr - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...tells us, " 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 * I have thus spoken of the Emperor Alexander, because Ithink, in justice, I cannot speakotherwise... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...follows : " 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 formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred... | |
 | Walter Scott - Scotland - 1815 - 416 pages
...great many poor families very meanly provided for by the church boxes, with others, who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred...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,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Astrologers - 1815 - 356 pages
...living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door tp door. These are not only no way advantageous, but...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,... | |
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... two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. 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... 
