| Charities - 1812 - 428 pages
...some, even girls of 10 or 13 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are...without clothing; and what little is allowed to many of tin in is all in rags. Their common lull dress is a coarse sacking or linsey \voolsey shiit and trowsers... | |
| History - 1813 - 818 pages
...some, even girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are nearly without clothing; and what little ii allowed to many of them is all ia rags. Their common full dress is a coarse sacking or linsey woolsey... | |
| Robert Sutcliff - Society of Friends - 1815 - 336 pages
...some, even girls of 10 or 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are...trowsers, for the men ; and, for the women, a long gar* ment or a petticoat, and a short waistcoat of the same materials ; both sexes go without shoes... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1821 - 976 pages
...some, even girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are...without shoes or stockings, and mostly without hats. I understood from a respectable able person, that further to the south he has seen, at the houses of... | |
| William Ladd - Peace - 1831 - 890 pages
...even girls of ten or twelve years of age, are seen walking in the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are...them is all in rags. Their common full dress is a course sacking orlinsy-woolsey shirt and trowsersfor the men ; and for the women a long garment or... | |
| Peace - 1831 - 670 pages
...walking- in the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Somex both men and women, arc nearly without clothing, and what little is allowed...them is all in rags. Their common full dress is a course sacking orlinsy-woolsey shirt and trowsers for the men ; and for the women a long garment or... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1813 - 824 pages
...some, e»en girls of 10 and 12 years of age, are seen walking the streets with baskets on their heads, without any clothing. Some, both men and women, are nearly without clothing; and what little ii allowed to many of them it all in rags. Their common full dress is a coarse sacking or linsey woolsey... | |
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