Social Life in Scotland: From Early to Recent Times, Volumen 1

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W. Paterson, 1884
 

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Página 8 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Página 270 - In years of plenty many thousands of them meet together in the mountains, where they feast and riot for many days; and at country weddings, markets, burials, and other the like public occasions, they are to be seen both men and women perpetually drunk, cursing, blaspheming, and fighting together.
Página 8 - And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.
Página 128 - December 1856, no irregular marriage contracted in Scotland by declaration, acknowledgment, or ceremony, shall be valid, unless one of the parties had at the date thereof his or her usual place of residence there, or had lived in Scotland for twenty-one days next preceding such marriage ; any law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 88 - Their habit is — shoes, with but one sole a-piece ; stockings, (which they call short hose...
Página 270 - 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 people begging from door to door.
Página 360 - English ; their peculiarities wear fast away ; their dialect is likely to become in half a century provincial and rustic, even to themselves. The great, the learned, the ambitious,. and the vain, all cultivate the English phrase, and the English pronunciation, and in splendid companies Scotch is not much heard, except now and then from an old lady.
Página 270 - And though the number of them be perhaps double to what it was formerly, by reason of this present great distress...
Página 247 - ... it has no floor but the naked ground. The wall, which is commonly about six feet high, declines from the perpendicular a little inward.
Página 59 - I myself/' says the traveller, Fynes Morrison, in the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, the scene being the Lowlands of Scotland, " was at a knight's house, who had many servants to attend him, that brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with...

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