Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland: With a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of EmigrationLongman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805 - 223 pagina's |
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... land , where they were lost not only to their native country , but to themselves as a separate people . Admiring many generous and manly fea- tures in their character , I could not ob- serve without regret the rapid decline of their ...
... land , where they were lost not only to their native country , but to themselves as a separate people . Admiring many generous and manly fea- tures in their character , I could not ob- serve without regret the rapid decline of their ...
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... land on liberal terms , such as promised an adequate return for the unavoidable expenses of the under- taking , I resolved to try the experiment , and , at my own risk , to engage some of the emigrants , who were preparing to go to the ...
... land on liberal terms , such as promised an adequate return for the unavoidable expenses of the under- taking , I resolved to try the experiment , and , at my own risk , to engage some of the emigrants , who were preparing to go to the ...
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... land in the Highlands , in former times , and at present . The small rentals of the estates forfeited by the rebels of 1745 have often been remarked with surprise , and have been contrasted with the great value of the same lands at ...
... land in the Highlands , in former times , and at present . The small rentals of the estates forfeited by the rebels of 1745 have often been remarked with surprise , and have been contrasted with the great value of the same lands at ...
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... land that was previously occupied by one , the pro- prietor acquired a new tenant , and a new soldier . From the operation of these princi- ples , the land seems , in a great majority of cases , to have been divided into possessions ...
... land that was previously occupied by one , the pro- prietor acquired a new tenant , and a new soldier . From the operation of these princi- ples , the land seems , in a great majority of cases , to have been divided into possessions ...
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... land was usually sufficient for this purpose ; and the remainder was let off , in small portions , to cotters , who differed but little from the small occupiers who held their lands immediately from the chief , excepting that , in lieu ...
... land was usually sufficient for this purpose ; and the remainder was let off , in small portions , to cotters , who differed but little from the small occupiers who held their lands immediately from the chief , excepting that , in lieu ...
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Pagina xix - All their household stuff, which is very little worth, though it might well abide the sale: yet being suddenly thrust out, they be constrained to sell it for a thing of nought. And when they have wandered...
Pagina xiv - Inclosures at that time began to be more frequent, whereby arable land, which could not be manured without people and families, was turned into pasture, which was easily rid by a few herdsmen ; and tenances for years, lives, and at will, whereupon much of the yeomanry lived, were turned into demesnes.
Pagina xviii - I, your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers and so wild, that they eat up and . „ swallow down the very men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities.
Pagina xiv - That all houses of husbandry, that were used with twenty acres of ground and upwards, should be maintained and kept up for ever; together with a competent proportion of land to be used and occupied with them...
Pagina xviii - ... fraud, or by violent oppression they be put besides it, or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied, that they be compelled to sell all...
Pagina xviii - They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. For look in what parts of the realm doth grow the finest, and therefore dearest wool, there noblemen and gentlemen : yea, and certain Abbots, holy men...
Pagina v - Wherever we roved, we were pleased to see the reverence with which his subjects regarded him. He did not endeavour to dazzle them by any magnificence of dress : his only distinction was a feather in his bonnet ; but as soon as he appeared, they forsook their work and clustered about him : he took them by the hand, and they seemed mutually delighted.
Pagina xviii - ... all into pastures : they throw down houses : they pluck down towns, and leave nothing standing, but only the church to be made a sheephouse.
Pagina xix - ... woeful mothers with their young babes, and their whole household small in substance and much in number as husbandry requireth many hands. Away they trudge, I say, out of their known and accustomed houses, finding no place to rest in.
Pagina xiv - The king likewise knew full well, and in no wise forgot, that there ensued withal upon this a decay and diminution of subsidies and taxes ; for the more gentlemen, ever the lower books of subsidies.