The Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Socially Considered, with Reference to Proprieters and People : Being a Series of Contributions to the Periodical PressJ. Menzies, 1850 - 262 strán (strany) |
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Strana 13
... lands of the oppressor know their ruined possessor no more ! And now , my Lord , lest my canvass should appear charged with too dark a picture , allow me to sketch a more agreeable theme . I have not the vanity to suppose that your ...
... lands of the oppressor know their ruined possessor no more ! And now , my Lord , lest my canvass should appear charged with too dark a picture , allow me to sketch a more agreeable theme . I have not the vanity to suppose that your ...
Strana 15
... lands to swell the grazing solitudes of some insatiable sheep - master ; when I hear of ship - loads of these poor ... land , and stock , and crop , in the clutch of an inexorable factor ; and pursuing them to their despotic desti ...
... lands to swell the grazing solitudes of some insatiable sheep - master ; when I hear of ship - loads of these poor ... land , and stock , and crop , in the clutch of an inexorable factor ; and pursuing them to their despotic desti ...
Strana 18
... land and progressive population . You want to rid your estates of human beings , and to crowd them with sheep . From glens and straths , where manly industry and womanly thrift had for generations matured a social condition , which ...
... land and progressive population . You want to rid your estates of human beings , and to crowd them with sheep . From glens and straths , where manly industry and womanly thrift had for generations matured a social condition , which ...
Strana 19
... lands , and the sight was truly sorrowful . Vestiges of dykes , obscure remains of houses , traces of pristine cultivation - but for aught else , I seemed to be " out of humanity's reach , " within half - a - dozen miles of the proud ...
... lands , and the sight was truly sorrowful . Vestiges of dykes , obscure remains of houses , traces of pristine cultivation - but for aught else , I seemed to be " out of humanity's reach , " within half - a - dozen miles of the proud ...
Strana 20
... effect of throwing a large ad- ditional quantity of land into cultivation , so as materially to im- prove the condition of the poorer peasantry . I cannot resist the pleasure of imparting this good news 20 LORD MACDONALD'S EVICTIONS .
... effect of throwing a large ad- ditional quantity of land into cultivation , so as materially to im- prove the condition of the poorer peasantry . I cannot resist the pleasure of imparting this good news 20 LORD MACDONALD'S EVICTIONS .
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The Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Socially Considered, with ... Thomas Mulock Úplné zobrazenie - 1850 |
The Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Socially Considered, with ... Thomas Mulock Úplné zobrazenie - 1850 |
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agricultural alleged benefit bounty Caird capital Captain Carlyle Christian confidence corn laws course crofters cultivation D'Israeli distressed districts Duke of Sutherland Duke's Dundonell Dunrobin Edinburgh enforced fact families farmers favour funds Glenelg Golspie gospel Government high farming high rents Highland Relief Board honour House impartial improvement industry interests Inverness Advertiser Ireland Irish justice labour land landlord and tenant leases letter liberal Lillingston Loch Lochalsh London Lord Advocate Lord Clarendon Lord Macdonald Lordship Mackintosh means ment mind never North Uist obedient servant oppression parties pauperism peasantry Peel's penal persons plain poor population possessions Post-office potato present principles promote proper protection protectionist railway readers roads Ross-shire scheme Scotland Scottish sheep Sheriff Sir George Grey Sir Robert Peel soil Sollas South Uist straths subsistence succour tenantry things THOMAS MULOCK tion true trust truth Ullapool utterly whole