 | Robert Burns - 1816 - 342 pages
...the political causes affecting it are to be traced to the previous acts of her separate legislature. A. slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland...condition of the Scottish peasants, every one can lead, and most persons are more or less, skilled in writing and arithmetic; and, under the disguise... | |
 | Robert Burns, James Currie - 1820 - 484 pages
...the political causes affecting it are to be traced to the previous acts of her separate legislature. A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland,...read, and most persons are more or less skilled in writB 2 ing ing and arithmetic ; and under the disguise of their uncouth appearance, and of their peculiar... | |
 | James Grahame - 1821 - 342 pages
...on the peasantry of Scotland with which Dr Currie has prefaced his Life of Burns. He there says, " A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland...class of men in the other countries of Europe. In i the very humblest condition of the Scottish peasants every one i can read, and most persons are more... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1835 - 440 pages
...the political causes affecting it are to he traced to the previous acts of her separate legislature. A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland will serve to convince an unprejudiced ohserver, that they possess a degree of intelligence not generally found among the same class of men... | |
 | James Currie - 1838 - 92 pages
...industry and good morals, which the character of the common people of Scotland has since undergone. A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland will serve to convince an unprejndiced observer, that they possess a degree of intelligence not generally found among the same... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 pages
...them, instead of a majority. "A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland," says the doctor, " will serve to convince an unprejudiced observer, that...and most persons are more or less skilled in writing or arithmetic, and have obtained a degree of information corresponding to these acquirements." The... | |
 | Susanne Kord - 2003 - 360 pages
...in every parish.78 Shortly after the turn of the nineteenth century, a contemporary observer noted, "In the very humblest condition of the Scottish peasants,...most persons are more or less skilled in writing and arithmetic."79 Johnson described England in 1781 as "a nation of readers," and the "cries of alarm... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1838 - 540 pages
...instead of a majority. " A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland," says the Doctor, " will serve to convince an unprejudiced observer, that...and most persons are more or less skilled in writing or arithmetic, and have obtained a degree of information corresponding to these acquirements." The... | |
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A slight acquaintance with the peasantry of Scotland, will serve to convince an unprejudiced observer that they possess a degree of intelligence not generally found among the same class of men in the other countries of Europe. In the very humblest condition... 