 | 1883 - 436 pages
...poor families -very meanly provided for by church boxes) 200,000 people begging from door to door. Though the number of them be' perhaps double to what it was formerly by reason of this great distress, yet in all times there have been about 100,000 of those vagabonds, who have lived withont... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1884 - 436 pages
...provided for by the church boxes, with others who, living upon bad food, fall into various diseases), two hundred thousand people begging from door to door,...perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of the present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Charles Rogers - 1884 - 440 pages
...provided for by the church boxes, with others who, living upon bad food, fall into various diseases), two hundred thousand people begging from door to door,...perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of the present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of those vagabonds,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...door to door. 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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pages
...door to door. 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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...door to door. 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...formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 920 pages
...door to door. 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...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 556 pages
...door to door. 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...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... | |
 | Henry Grey Graham - 1899 - 290 pages
...everywhere around him and people famishing at his very door. "There are," he wrote,1 " at this day two hundred thousand people begging from door to door....formerly, by reason of this present great distress, yet in all times there have been about one hundred thousand of these vagabonds, who have lived without... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1899 - 442 pages
...provided for by the church boxes, with others who, by living on bad food. fall into various diseaseSj two hundred thousand people begging from door to door...double to what it was formerly, by reason of this great present distress, yet at all times there have been about 100,000 of these vagabonds who have... | |
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And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress... 
