 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 736 σελίδες
...the gentry, were not so liberal, decent, And sump' tuous as those of ordinary farmers are at present. The common 'people, clothed in the coarsest garb,...fare, lived in despicable huts with 'their cattle.'^ Here we have fertile land abundant and cultivated in an " unexpensive" manner, yet we find abject poverty... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1837
...the gentry were not so liberal, decent, and sumptuous as those of ordinary farmers are at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and...fare, lived in despicable huts with their cattle. " The half-ploughed fields yielded scanty crops, and manufactures scarcely existed. Almost every improvement... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1839 - 718 σελίδες
...the gentry were not so liberal, decent, and sumptuous as those of ordinary farmers are at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and...fare, lived in despicable huts with their cattle. " The half-ploughed fields yielded scanty crops, and manufactures scarcely existed. Almost every improvement... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1841 - 432 σελίδες
...the gentry were not so liberal, decent, and sumptuous, as those of ordinary farmers are, at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and...fare, lived in despicable huts, with their cattle. 30* " The half-ploughed fields yielded scanty crops, and manufactures scarcely existed. Almost every... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1841
...so liberal, decent, and sumptuous, as those of ordinary farmers are at present. The common pcople, clothed in the coarsest garb, and starving on the...fare, lived in despicable huts with their cattle. The half-ploughed fields yielded scanty crops, and manufactures scarcely existed. Almost every improvement... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854
...the gentry were not so liberal, decent, and sumptuous as those of ordinary fanners are at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and...fare, lived in despicable huts with their cattle. " The half-ploughed fields yielded scanty crops, and manufactures scarcely existed. Almost every improvement... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1859
...the gentry were not so liberal, decent, and sumptuous as those of ordinary farmers are at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and...fare, lived in despicable huts with their cattle, f Less than a century since, the slaughter of bullocks for the supply of cities like Glasgow or Edinburgh,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston Warden - 1884
...fertile tracts were waste, or indifferently cultivated, and the bulk of the inhabitants were uncivilised. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and starving on the meanest fare, lived iu despicable huts with their cattle. There was then no ground fallowed ; no pease, grass, turnips,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1904 - 240 σελίδες
...could seldom afford such bare comforts as half a century later their own farmers possessed. As for the common people, clothed in the coarsest garb and starving on the meanest fare, they dwelt in despicable huts with their cattle. It is significant that in those days Scotland had... | |
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... are, at present. The common people, clothed in the coarsest garb, and starving on the meanest fare, lived in despicable huts, with their cattle. 