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,... Religion in Connexion with a National System of Instruction - 50 페이지저자: William Maxwell Gunn - 1840 - 444 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
| Henry Barnard - 1854 - 898 페이지
...plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many (lays ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
| Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 페이지
...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...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." This is no true picture of Scotch life now. In less than half a century from Fletcher's time, common... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1856 - 764 페이지
...be informed which way any of these wretches died, or that ever they were baptized. Many murders hare been discovered among them ; and they are not only...the date of the work of Fletcher of Saltoun ? — It appear*, from very distinct historical documents, that that state of things subsided almost per saltum,... | |
| George Nicholls - 1856 - 310 페이지
...not only a most unspeakable oppression to the poor tenants (who if they give not bread or some kind of provision to perhaps forty such villains in one...drunk, cursing blaspheming and fighting together. "g There may be some exaggeration in this statement, for it is difficult to believe that there could... | |
| Frederic Richard Lees - 1857 - 350 페이지
...intemperance then as now. ' ' They rob many poor people who live in houses distant from any neighborhood. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together" (Works, p. 100). In the last century, the town council of Glasgow issued a proclamation containing... | |
| 1874 - 792 페이지
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days, and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. " It is only fair to the Scottish people to say that the demoralization described by Fletcher was in... | |
| John M'Elheran - 1858 - 414 페이지
...; many murders have been discovered among them." " At country weddings, markets, burials, and other like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together." This is the Scotchman's account of his own Bible-reading country. The free Bible reading was hot to... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 페이지
...mountains, where they feast and riot for many days ; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and the like public occasions, they are to be seen, both men and women, perpetually drank, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were... | |
| 1860 - 664 페이지
...or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1860 - 692 페이지
...or some kind of provision, to perhaps forty such villains in a day, are sure to be insulted by them. In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together...drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together. These are such outrageous disorders, that it were better for the nation they were sold for the gallies... | |
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