 | Edmund Burke - 1816 - 838 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 women, perpetually drunk, curs" ing, blaspheming, and fighting together."^ -This high-minded statesman, of whom it is said by... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1806 - 422 pages
...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...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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...sometimes of murder. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, there they feast and riot for many days; and at country...light of which they could not encounter, and withdrew forever from its presence. This system of education gives to the manner of a low Scotchman an air ot... | |
 | Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain) - 1809 - 400 pages
...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 "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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...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 and...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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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,... 
