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... Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Strona 100autor: Walter Scott - 1815 - Liczba stron: 358Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
| Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - Liczba stron: 492
...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 - 1732 - Liczba stron: 474
...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... | |
| Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - Liczba stron: 630
...There are at this day, in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And tho 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 thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
| Robert Burns - 1806 - Liczba stron: 422
...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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
| Christiane Derobert-Ratel - 1809 - Liczba stron: 590
...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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed,) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1809 - Liczba stron: 1484
...but a very great burthen to so poor a country. And though the number or' them be perhaps double of 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 subjection to the laws of the land, or even... | |
| 1809 - Liczba stron: 1080
...500,000 people beting from rl'jorw door. Thes* are not only no way advantageous, but a very great burthen to so poor a country. And though the number of them be perhaps double ot what it u as formerly, by reason of this present great distress; yet in all times there hnve been... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1809 - Liczba stron: 328
...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 - Liczba stron: 494
...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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, (a famine then prevailed) yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
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