 Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master.  The Political Works of Andrew Fletcher - Страница 386по Andrew Fletcher - 1737 - 448 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1732 - 492 страници
...our money was fpent in England, and not among ourfelves; the furniture of our houfes, and the beft of our clothes and equipage was bought at London : and...prerogative in Scotland, to the ruin of liberty, property / and and trade: and the diforders. which were afterwards occafioned by the civil war, gave the laft... | |
 | 1821 - 404 страници
...Scots' nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, VOL. IV. PART I. I like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of- the master." Notwithstanding... | |
 | 1821 - 408 страници
...Scots' nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, VOL. IV. PART I. 1 like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." Notwithstanding... | |
 | James Mackinnon - 1896 - 578 страници
...Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." f Fletcher's contemporary, Seton, allocates the blame... | |
 | James Mackinnon - 1920 - 200 страници
...Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court, to the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was; totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master." Seton agrees, but he points out that Scotsmen, by their... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey, Robert Sangster Rait - 1920 - 432 страници
...had many great and profitable places at court, to " the high displeasure of the English, yet there " was no advantage to our country, which was totally " neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and " not under the eye of the Master." 1 The last years of the seventeenth century had been... | |
 | Andrew Fletcher - 1997 - 304 страници
...Fletcher articulated what at the time was a widely held conviction. the high displeasure of the English, yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants, and not under the eye of the master. The great business both of Scots and English ministers... | |
 | Paul Henderson Scott - 2003 - 204 страници
...... though particular persons of the Scots nation had many great and profitable places at court ... yet that was no advantage to our country, which was totally neglected, like a farm managed by servants and not under the eye of the master.' 'If I make a bargain for the people that inhabit the... | |
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