 | Society for bettering the conditions and increasing the comforts of the poor - 1805 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1800 - 424 pages
...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 people begging 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... | |
 | 1827 - 790 pages
...' 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 - Scotland - 1809 - 328 pages
...lose his life to save his country, and would not do a base thing to serve it, 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... | |
 | Christiane Derobert-Ratel - Aix-en-Provence (France) - 1809 - 590 pages
...lose his life to save his country, and would not do a base thing to serve it, 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 formerly, by reason of this present... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Capital punishment - 1812 - 494 pages
...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 though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Poor laws - 1824 - 190 pages
...We learn from the historian Fletcher of Saltoun, who wrote in the year 1698, that there were in that day in Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. " And though the number of them," he says, " be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of... | |
 | Charles Fenton Mercer - Education - 1826 - 138 pages
...morals and goodi 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 though the number of them be perhaps double to what it formerly was, by reason of this present... | |
 | 1835 - 858 pages
...has always swarmed with such numbers of idle vagabonds as •o 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 • Second Fart of Major Moody 's Ki port, pngcs 49, 60, 52. subjection... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 886 pages
..." 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 lo door, living without any regard or subjection to the laws of the land, or to even those of God and... | |
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There are at this day in Scotland, two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. 
