 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 to...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Page 2351817Full view - About this book
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 336 pages
...Scotland, describes the lower classes of that kingdom as being in a state of the most abject poverty and savage ignorance; and subsisting partly by mere beggary,...produced by .a similar state of things during our own limes, upon the Irish peasantry in the disturbed parts of that unhappy country. " In years of plenty,"... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1815 - 404 pages
...Scotland, describes the lower classes of that kingdom as being in a state of the most abject poverty and savage ignorance ; and subsisting partly by mere beggary,...may remind us of the effects produced by a similar stale of things during our own times, upon the Irish peasantry in the disturbed parts of that unhappy... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1815 - 360 pages
...distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; ******. No magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which way... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 568 pages
...SfQllaifd, dpscrib/es the lower classes of that kingdom as being in a state of t)ie most abject poverty and savage ignorance ; and subsisting partly by mere beggary,...rapine, " without any regard or subjection either to "fhp laws of the }and wrto those of God aod nature." Sftp»e of tljg instances given by this writer... | |
 | Mungo Park - 1816 - 568 pages
...Scotland, describes the lower classes of that kingdom as being in a state of the most abject poverty and savage ignorance ; and subsisting partly by mere beggary,...rapine, " without any regard or subjection either lo " the laws of the land or to those of God and nature." Some of the instances given by this writer... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 482 pages
...Fletcher of Saltoun states that there could not be fewer than " 100,000 vagabonds living in that country, without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even to these of God and nature :" that " no magistrate could at any time discover, whether or not... | |
 | 1817 - 708 pages
...distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature; • * * * * * j^o magistrate could ever discover, or be informed, which... | |
 | 1817 - 694 pages
...distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; could ever discover, or be informed, which way one in a hundred of these... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1819 - 344 pages
...distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have Jived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - 1822 - 344 pages
...distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds, who have lived without any regard or subjection either to the laws of the land, or even those of God and nature ; fathers incestuously accompanying with their own daughters, the son... | |
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