 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 - Side 100af Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 sider
...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 - 474 sider
...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 - 630 sider
...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 - 422 sider
...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 - 590 sider
...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 - 1484 sider
...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 - 1080 sider
...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 - 328 sider
...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 sider
...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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