Scotland in the Time of Queen MaryMethuen & Company, 1904 - 243 páginas |
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... equally definite testimony . From an English chronicler we learn that as early as the twelfth century the fame of its orchards had gone beyond the limits of Scotland ; and the French writer just quoted tells us that it was " situated in ...
... equally definite testimony . From an English chronicler we learn that as early as the twelfth century the fame of its orchards had gone beyond the limits of Scotland ; and the French writer just quoted tells us that it was " situated in ...
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... equally applies to the sixteenth . " The vulgar houses , " this observer writes , " and what are seen in the villages , are low and feeble . Their walls are made of a few stones jumbled together with mortar to cement them , on which ...
... equally applies to the sixteenth . " The vulgar houses , " this observer writes , " and what are seen in the villages , are low and feeble . Their walls are made of a few stones jumbled together with mortar to cement them , on which ...
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... equally proves that they were oppressed and exploited to a degree far beyond what was ever the case in Scotland . We have just had a picture of the conditions under which the Scottish agricultural labourer lived in the reign of Mary ...
... equally proves that they were oppressed and exploited to a degree far beyond what was ever the case in Scotland . We have just had a picture of the conditions under which the Scottish agricultural labourer lived in the reign of Mary ...
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... equally defy the weapons of men and the tooth of time , but when the threatened danger passed , the work would drag and finally cease till another panic evoked another burst of energy . After the disaster at Flodden , as we know , a ...
... equally defy the weapons of men and the tooth of time , but when the threatened danger passed , the work would drag and finally cease till another panic evoked another burst of energy . After the disaster at Flodden , as we know , a ...
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... equally impressed them as the most striking and peculiar . By the time of Mary Edinburgh was far and away the most important place in Scotland - first in wealth , in population and political significance . It was only for about a ...
... equally impressed them as the most striking and peculiar . By the time of Mary Edinburgh was far and away the most important place in Scotland - first in wealth , in population and political significance . It was only for about a ...
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