 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 pages
...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 - 1732 - 474 pages
...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 - 1800 - 424 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows : " There are at this day in Scotland, two " hundred thousand people begging from door to " door. And though the number of them be per" haps double to what it was formerly, by reason of ef this present great distress, (a famine then... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows: " There are at this day, in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number...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... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - 590 pages
...not do a base thing to serve it, tells us, " There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door; and though the number...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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...not do a base thing to serve it, 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 - 1812 - 494 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows : " There are at this day in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number...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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 416 pages
...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 distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand... | |
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And though the number of them 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 any regard or subjection, either... 
