 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...favorable to morals and good government. In the year 1698, Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows : " 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,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...favourable to morals and good government. In the year 1 6(^8, Fletcher of Saltoun declared as follows : " There are at this day in Scotland, two " hundred thousand...from door to " door. And though the number of them be per" haps double to what it was formerly, by reason of ef this present great distress, (a famine then... | |
 | 1827 - 790 pages
...' says he, ' has always swarmed with such numbers of idle vagabonds as no laws could ever restrain. There are at this day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door, living without any regard or subjection to the laws of the lano^ or to even those of God and nature.... | |
 | Sir John Carr - 1809 - 328 pages
...pen, I am persuaded that the conclusion of all his reasoning would be, education -without proselytism. Let us compare, by the assistance of a venerable author,...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... | |
 | 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
...various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And, though the number of these 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... | |
 | 1813 - 550 pages
...provided for by the churchboxes, (with others, who by living upon bad food fall into various diseases,) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all... | |
 | 1813 - 552 pages
...provided for by the church-boxes, (with others, who by living upon bad food falf into various diseases), two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. And though the number of these be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all... | |
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