 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1878 - 890 pages
...there were in the little country of Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided...for by the church boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fell victims to various diseases. A similar lesson may be learned from a similar condition... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...Discouise on the Affairs of Scotland,' 1698, there occurs the following sketch : State of Scotland in 1698. There are at this day in Scotland — besides a great...many poor families very meanly provided for by the church-boxes, with others who, by living on bad food, fall into various diseases — two hundred thousand... | |
 | Education - 1879 - 872 pages
...there were in the little country of Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided...for by the church boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fell victims to various diseases. A similar lesson may be learned from a similar condition... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1879 - 880 pages
...there were in the little country of Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided...for by the church boxes, with others who by living upon bad food fell victims to various diseases. A similar lesson may be learned from a similar condition... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Education - 1879 - 868 pages
...there were in the little country of Scotland two hundred thousand people begging from door to door, besides a great many poor families, very meanly provided...for by the church boxes, with others who by living upon bad food foil victims to various diseases. A similar lesson may be learned from a similar condition... | |
 | Antiquities - 1882 - 308 pages
...spiritedly describes the Highlands and the state of the country with the number of lawless beggars : — There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These... | |
 | Antiquities - 1882 - 328 pages
...spiritedly describes the Highlands and the state of the country with the number of lawless beggars : — There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...for by the church boxes, with others who, by living upon bad food, fall into various diseases) two hundred thousand people begging from door to door. These... | |
 | Periodicals - 1883 - 436 pages
...this country has always swarmed with such numbers of idle vagabonds as no laws could ever restrain. There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great many 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... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Scotland - 1884 - 440 pages
...of the country, in respect of native beggars, is, by Fletcher of Saltoun, in 1698, thus described: "There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...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... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Scotland - 1884 - 436 pages
...of the country, in respect of native beggars, is, by Fletcher of Saltoun, in 1698, thus described : "There are at this day in Scotland (besides a great...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... | |
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C two hundred thousand people begging from 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 what it was formerly, by reason of... 
